Misc

• Interesting conversation about the benefits of the functional approach

• Based on this article

• Resulting Twitter conversation here

Functional programming - smells

• Strength of functional = heterogeneity and lack of strongly-typedness
• But this means you don’t have the confidence of the compiler via compiler errors
• Some Clojure concepts like protocols and record types provide levels of typing and interop with java interfaces and are about polymorphism.
• You could pass the wrong things to the wrong thing. Nothing fundamental in the code prevents you from fucking up. Could maybe use spec to accomplish this?