Re: [dev] what's your opinion on Go

From: Andrew Hills <hills.as_AT_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 13 Dec 2011 10:17:49 -0500

> I've heared that functional programming will take over the world for
> the last decade. When talking to some older geeks they've heared this
> since the 70s. Now we are in the year 2012 nearly, and functional
> programming is still niche.

The problem, as I see it, is that you can't teach functional
programming to stupid/most people, but you can make .NET easy enough
that they can design barely-functioning Web 3.0 pages without much
mental effort or understanding. Maybe I'm just a little bitter about
the number of morons who water down the value of my degree, though.

--Andrew Hills
Received on Tue Dec 13 2011 - 16:17:49 CET