By the looks of the code snippets he should have explained that he’s not doing functional programming, he’s just writing unnecessarily non-idiomatic python code. I’m sure his manager would have understood.

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ndriscoll 13 hours ago | parent [-]

The code snippets are Scala. The first snippet is idiomatic. I can't imagine a team adopting Scala and complaining about functional programming though.

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tengbretson 13 hours ago | parent | next [-]

I thought "idiomatic Scala" was an oxymoron.

	▲	cyberpunk 8 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Does it still generate 17 page long stacktraces of nothing but $anon$fun? Good times.

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mrkeen 13 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I've been there. One of the more functionally-minded devs wrote something to do with putting Keys and Values into some kind of json store, and a less functionally-minded dev complained about all the type variables - Ks and Vs I guess.

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tiew9Vii 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

The article date appears to be around the time the company the author was working at got a new CTO who effectively said functional programming was banned. The Scala teams got broken up and some pro Scala staff managed out…

Maybe it’s related, maybe it’s not.