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I'm getting started with functional programming, which language would you recommend? (gregtech.eu)
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Specifically, I'm interested in BEAM, but I'm not sure if I should go for Elixir or Gleam. What seems cool about Gleam is that it has static typing.

I have no experience with functional programming at all btw

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[–] 1 point 1 year ago (1 child)

Bad code will be unreadable in any language of course.

Yeah I'm talking about good code, or at least not bad code. Let's not "no true Scotsman" this.

Even for good code you don't need syntax highlighting to easily see which identifiers are function names and which are their parameters in Rust.

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    I don't need syntax highlighting for that in Haskell either. My usual highlighting just leaves them both in the default text color.

    And I'm specifically arguing that the other things on your list do not inherently make code bad.

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