chobytes

100% agree, programming is a very powerful and practical skill for just about everyone in modern society.

I think this latest resurgence of OOP skepticism could be a good thing, but I can see it easily turn into folks just using OOP as a scapegoat for bad design.

I worry as well about the push for FP to somehow 'replace' OO, when really they address different concerns, and can actually complement eachother.

Honestly dropping Java or C++ as intro languages is fine imo... But why not something like Lisp, SML, or even Ruby...?

...what?

>ML outclasses it you people are why nobody will take haskell or ocaml seriously. as a developer who works primarily with haskell: it is not a panacea, stop being so snobbish

just curious: are you comparing being gay with being a fucking pedo?

are you actually trying to say that being a pedophile is a legitimate sexuality?

or even that it's anything like being gay?

i was a bit of a hiki for awhile as a teen. i didnt goto HS or anything, i just stayed in my room and sat on 4chan for years. for me i think it was that the combination of some unmedicated mental issues i didnt know i had yet, and a bad family situation, had left me barely able to cope with being alive.

on the bright side i got my start with tech/programming/etc with all that free time. thanks /g/ haha