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My main problem with the proposition that "OOP is awful" is that the argument is basically "it's not the best so it's the worst". The expression problem is not solved by every lang…

This blew my mind. The "scala" example he used was literally a java code snippet pulled from here http://batsov.com/articles/2011/05/12/jvm-langs-clojure/ IT'S LITERALLY JAVA SYNTA…

It seems practical to say a functional language has first-class functions and a purely functional language has first-class functions and no mutable state -- purely functional -> fu…

hah, i guess i should mention that i am bad at leading because of my own slow typing annoying myself

It's a false dichotomy to assume you must either a) reject conditions or b) be medicated. This is especially true considering that at least one of the "conditions" mentioned by inv…

Slow typing can be very tedious while pair programming, though the tedium is also a function of anxiety and patience.

Your disagreement is kind of out of place here; no claim was made of where the productivity boost of autocomplete ranks against other development factors. Besides, whether or not y…

In defense of non-fiction readers, it seems that one could make the statement quoted above in order to say "this is my intent in reading, so it leads me to read these types of book…