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I'm teaching it. It feels increasingly out of date. Tool support has stagnated for years on Linux. Modern features like lambdas are not really supported.



> Modern features like lambdas

"Modern" as in "Introduced to programming languages 35 years before the invention of UML, finally turning up in Java 20 years after the invention of UML"?


Yes. Why did the functional programming people need so long to convince the rest of the benefits?


For the same reason that it always takes conservative people long to understand the benefits of what they are fighting against?




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