fp likers: what were you doing the first time you thought fp was good

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > YOSPOS > fp likers: what were you doing the first time you thought fp was good

Corla Plankun: May 8, 2007; improve the lives of everyone

i think i 'get' functional programming and composability and stuff but a lot of my coworkers are really enthusiastic about it and i want to be a fp liker too

what were you doing the first time you went from thinkingn "fp is a different programming paradigm" to "fp is the best programming paradigm for this task"?

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Corla Plankun: May 8, 2007; improve the lives of everyone

The Management posted:

I think floating point has its uses but many people are not aware of the particular challenges and limitation it has.

i thought the title might confuse people but then i remembered that literally noone likes floating point representation so it didn't matter if it was misread :o:

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