Re: [Haskell-cafe] How do people still not understand what FP is about? What are we doing wrong?

On Tue, Jun 19, 2012 at 05:59:57AM +1000, Ben Kolera wrote:

Saw this float by in twitter, and it made me a bit sad. Obviously this is still a large misunderstanding of FP in the larger programming community and it make me wonder what we FP enthusiasts are doing wrong to not get the message out to people.

"Programming languages that require random senseless voodoo to get an effect are awesome. Let's make programming hard through poor design." [1]

If you click through and look at his later tweets, it's clear he's talking about Objective-C. Unless you're suggesting Objective-C is the language of FP enthusiasts, i think it's safe to say you heard him out of context. :) -john