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by pjmlp 1759 days ago
Yeah, we should have kept using macro assemblers instead of needless abstractions.
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tptacek 1758 days ago
If you believe that absolutely, the way you imply here, then we're all just chumps for not working in Haskell.
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jolux 1758 days ago
I feel like I should probably admit that I am just generally a fan of functional programming and I do think there are big benefits to it, most of the time (of course, some algorithms are just more elegant with loops and mutation). But my day job is writing services with Elixir, so ultimately complaining about generics in Go is a little rich coming from me.

At the end of the day, whatever gets the product built is what matters. I just fail to see how generics could be a hindrance.

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pjmlp 1758 days ago
Not necessarily Haskell, although it would be nice, there are already enough ML influences in modern languages, with exception of Go.

Confessions of a used programming language salesman

https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1297027.1297078

> As a result, functional programming has finally reached the masses, except that it is called Visual Basic 9 instead of Haskell 98.

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