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Functional programmer: (noun) One who names variables "x", names functions "f", and names code patterns "zygohistomorphic prepromorphism"

5:58 PM · May 13, 2015Twitter for Mac

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ha ha ha

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but muh AbstractFactoryProxyBuilder class.

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In Erlang there are occasions where one needs to name a variable _. :)

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damn, I must be the weird guy then lol

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One of the worst things about FP is the too-succinct code examples written by would-be educators.

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In fairness, that phrase was originally a joke. :)

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what are these "code patterns" of which you speak?

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Variables? Oh you mean symbolic manifestations of the deeper phase state of the universe.

Of course, "quicksort" would be too laborious to type, so we should call it "qsort": c2.com/cgi/wiki?Quick

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