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Dopefish7590 · 08-27-2012, 07:37 PM

I've taken quite a liking to the functional paradigm... It has a lot more advantages than a lot of people give it credit for. First class and anonymous functions, closures, the whole deal.

I never really appreciated it until I tried learning Common LISP... Maybe I'll pick up Clojure soon since I can use it for much more practical application than Common LISP at the moment. (Because JVM is more ubiquitous, and exporting executable LISP images produces rather cumbersome files)

08-27-2012, 07:37 PM	#11
Dopefish7590	Re: John Carmack on Functional Programming in C++ I've taken quite a liking to the functional paradigm... It has a lot more advantages than a lot of people give it credit for. First class and anonymous functions, closures, the whole deal. I never really appreciated it until I tried learning Common LISP... Maybe I'll pick up Clojure soon since I can use it for much more practical application than Common LISP at the moment. (Because JVM is more ubiquitous, and exporting executable LISP images produces rather cumbersome files) Last edited by Dopefish7590; 08-27-2012 at 07:39 PM.