What is wrong with functional languages

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Post by ThinkEzy » Thu, Mar 01, 2012, 10:33 AM UTC

What is wrong with functional languages
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Re: What is wrong with functional languages

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Post by tompko » Thu, Mar 01, 2012, 10:50 AM UTC

If python was treating it as a text value then int("009") is 9 as you would expect. Even if it wasn't you could do lstrip("0") to remove leading zeroes before converting to an integer.

From reading the post it sounds like the faults lies more with the developers inability to use python than pythons inabilities.

Also, I know python has functional aspects, but is it really classified as a functional language now?

Re: What is wrong with functional languages

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Post by ajuc » Thu, Mar 01, 2012, 10:56 AM UTC

tompko wrote: post #2

If python was treating it as a text value then int("009") is 9 as you would expect. Even if it wasn't you could do lstrip("0") to remove leading zeroes before converting to an integer. From reading the post it sounds like the faults lies more with the developers inability to use python than pythons inabilities. Also, I know python has functional aspects, but is it really classified as a functional language now?

Also - even if it was python fault, and if python was a functional language, error described here would be a problem of dynamic typing, not of functional-ness of a language.

Re: What is wrong with functional languages

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Post by tikhonj » Thu, Mar 01, 2012, 11:29 AM UTC

I'm not sure an article about "functional languages like Python" is going to shed much light on functional languages.

Maybe he was thinking of "procedural"?

Re: What is wrong with functional languages

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Post by tompko » Thu, Mar 01, 2012, 11:38 AM UTC

tikhonj wrote: post #4

I'm not sure an article about "functional languages like Python" is going to shed much light on functional languages. Maybe he was thinking of "procedural"?

Python is multi-paradigm, you can certainly write functional code with it.

Re: What is wrong with functional languages

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Post by kls » Thu, Mar 01, 2012, 1:50 PM UTC

tompko wrote: post #5

tikhonj wrote: post #4

I'm not sure an article about "functional languages like Python" is going to shed much light on functional languages. Maybe he was thinking of "procedural"?

Python is multi-paradigm, you can certainly write functional code with it.

But the article still get's it wrong it has nothing to do with functional vs OO vs procedural and everything to do with type casting. Given the level of confusion on the authors part I suspect this has more to do with mastery of the tools at the authors disposal than the constructs of a languadge.