Functional Conference - FuConf2014
Day1 at the Functional conference - FuConf2014 Keynote: The keynote 'The joy of functional programming' was delivered by Venkat Subramanium. Indeed a joy to listen to this talk. There were lessons shared on coding standards and sub-standards. I had not set expectations before the talk. As the talk progressed Venkat shared the history of programming, computability, object oriented programming and mention of this quote by Alan Kay who coined the term object oriented. I made up the term 'object-oriented', and I can tell you I didn't have C++ in mind -- Alan Kay, OOPSLA '97 The talk centered upon what was presumed as 'mainstream' once upon a time needn't be the word of the Lord. Venkat deconstructed the word mainstream by quoting many examples like: -heliocentric theory. -importance of hygiene at hospitals. -women's right to vote. The gist of the above references being: not to fall prey for dogmatic mainstream theories but to be as pragma...