Logan DiceTwo CSS propeties walk into a bar.
A barstool in a completely different bar falls over.
@TheWizardTower
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Recreational gadfly. Haskell, Linux, Tango, Emacs, Politics.
@maradydd sounds like a rotten way to spend an evening. Hope you're feeling better soon.
Fortune, All of it.Murray's Rule:
Any country with "democratic" in the title isn't.
Any country with "democratic" in the title isn't.
@GinBaby You have to be pretty goddamn metal to get along with me.
@GinBaby Can confirm all of the above. Though I may threaten you with a C project idea as a riposte.
It is against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing
thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?
-- Alan Perlis
What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing
thoughts, devoting attention to detail, and learning to be self-critical?
-- Alan Perlis
@guretsugu Well, this isn't isolated to just "Why hasn't Functional Programming taken over the world yet?"
Garbage Collection was an idea in 1959. The first working implementation was Lisp.
It didn't really hit mainstream use until Java. In 1995. 30-ish years later.
@guretsugu ...and I just don't get the mindset. I get that learning new things is hard (It took me a long while to get proficient with Haskell, and I haven't forgotten that), but. Software Engineering is a carrot-and-stick business. The carrot is "Find the better way to do this." The stick is "Don't become obsolete."
@guretsugu So, the context for this is I'm a Haskell nerd who works at a mostly PHP shop. Everyone agrees that PHP is terrible and is Not The Way Things Should Be Done.
And yet, when I suggest things like Haskell, or Rust, or the like, I more-or-less get dirty side-eyes from people, because its harder to go from PHP to Haskell than, say, PHP to JavaScript or Ruby.
Why does it take so long for the software industry to change, grow, and evolve?