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[Deepfreeze32]

Any experience with the Functional Programming paradigm?

Also, how would you rate C# compared to something like C or Objective-C?

[ArchAngel]

Bummer. I wasn't entirely kidding.

Glad to see I'm still marketable. lol

What kind of brain rot do I have now that I understand what you guys are talking about?

-_-

I believe it's called enlightenment. You're learning the ways of the code.

Any experience with the Functional Programming paradigm?

Also, how would you rate C# compared to something like C or Objective-C?

I have limited experience with functional programming. Nothing outside of school. Mostly Scheme, and I believe negligable amounts of Lisp and Haskell. I don't really forsee myself using them a whole lot more, and I much prefer object-oriented, but I think it's a great exercise for abstract thinking and looking at code in new ways.

As for C# vs C/Objective-C, I can't really comment on Objective-C because I barely touched it. I can comment on C# vs. C, and really, it becomes high level vs. low level, and as you know, I'm a high level guy. I like the framework C# comes with and makes programming more about architecture than granular work. It's about modularizing and containing complexity, and much of coding ends up being this. I'd trade efficiency to make the code readable and maintainable. Here, I let the framework handle the low-level complexities, and I'll concern myself with the solution. Modern software is crazy complex and it needs as much structure as it can get. So, this is why I prefer C# over C. Outside of very specific applications that require the granular level C provides, I see no reason to use it over a high level language. It's like trading in your BMW for a peddle car.

Now, I will grant you the disadvantage of the framework; when you do things inside it's intended scope, it's fantastic. But when you want to go outside it, it's swimming upstream. In my experience, the .NET framework has been broad enough where I rarely have to, and they do allow for some "breaking" of the rules. Take a look at Reflection for .NET. It's black magic.

[ArcticFox]

Web Services?

[ArchAngel]

I worked a little with them, but I wouldn't call myself an expert.

[ArcticFox]

I'm trying to determine if this line of code:


ServiceClient sender = util.getSender(sServiceURL, sServiceName, sMethod);

Is equivalent to this:

EndpointReference targetEPR = new EndpointReference(sServiceNameURL + "/" + sMethod);
ServiceClient sender = util.getSender(targetEPR, sServiceName);

Does that ring any bells?

[ArchAngel]

Hrrmm, it doesn't, actually. I imagine it would be, but I don't know what's in the getSender function, and I haven't used an EndpointReference. Maybe I did and just don't remember...

[ArcticFox]

Yeah I'm reverse-engineering code that's a few years in the spaghettification and I'm seeing it done both ways in that 5,000 line class I told you about... and it's as likely to matter as not matter.

[ArchAngel]

Oh man, that sounds like you're doing my job. Are you me?

[ArcticFox]

Hmmm... we've never been seen in the same place at the same time...

[Chozon1]

Nanotechnology?

[ArchAngel]

Promising technology.

[Deepfreeze32]

emacs or vim?

[ArchAngel]

For coding, I prefer a proper IDE, but I have used vim more than emacs. Probably just on the counts I can be a bigger linux snob when I do it.

[Chozon1]

Silicon shoes?

[ArchAngel]

nope