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		jjav on Nov 16, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What’s so great about functional programming anywa... > > Any engineer should be able to pick up your code and understand it pretty close to immediately. > So a webdev should almost immediately pick up a mix of C++ and assembly? There's a reason assembly has been relegated to very specific & specialized use cases. I'd almost want to say the same about C++. The best production code is very simple, very understandable.

valenterry on Nov 17, 2022 [–]

True, but I can extend my example to "javascript -> Haskell" or "Haskell -> Rust" or "Rust -> Prolog" - and vice vera. In every case, you can't just simply understand the code because you will have to learn new concepts first.

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