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by Pop2019 2581 days ago
JavaScript is functional and oh boy!
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pingucrimson 2581 days ago
What does "functional" mean to you? If "OO" has a hundred different meanings, then "functional" must have at least a thousand. To me, JavaScript is definitely not functional - it lacks a notion of purity, and its meaning is the evaluation of statements, not the construction of expressions.
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Pop2019 2581 days ago
My point was popular languages attract masses of developers and the resulting quality of code is poor on average.
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pingucrimson 2581 days ago
That's a good point, but it's not implied by "JavaScript is functional and oh boy!" at all.
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