Tony Morris

Pretentious bullshit like "Clojure is in some way related to functional programming" is a pedagogical scourge.

@dibblego can you give context?

@curious_reader The context is the continued idea that Clojure is somehow related to FP, even so ridiculous to be proposed for teaching!

@dibblego @bitemyapp I've read you two tweet a lot some variations of "no dynamic language is fp" care to explain? cc @psnively

@malk_zameth @bitemyapp @psnively It's humanly intractable for non-trivial adherence to FP thesis absent types. That's why you never see it.

@dibblego @bitemyapp @malk_zameth @psnively It's hard when most think of lisp as the parent language for all things functional

@rickasaurus @bitemyapp @malk_zameth @psnively Saying a language is (not) functional is like saying triangles do (not) boil above 7 metres.

@dibblego @rickasaurus the problem is they think a language is functional, and the only alt. they are open to is "not functional" ..