2021-04-01

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BartholomewJS
​Greetings.

BartholomewJS
​Topic Suggestion: Functional Programming in OOP Languages

Xah Lee
​no suggestion. only ask what u want to ask

Potato Eater
​Hi!

Xah Lee
​hi potato

BartholomewJS
​1. What do you think about RMS situation. (Short answer, 5 mins. max.)

BartholomewJS
​2. What do you think of people using OOP languages to program in functional style?

Xah Lee
​ok

Yun Yon
​hi

Xah Lee
​hi yun

Cortez Phenix
​Good morning 🙂

Farzin F
​@xah, I use an eye patch too, dye to strabismus, double vision

Farzin F
​@Xah, I have a somewhat personal question: do you feel you wasted time with your work on Emacs? that's the impression I got when watching one of your previous streams

Syed Ali
​Hi Xah, hello everyone

Electro
​hi

BartholomewJS
​@Farzin F Good question.

Syed Ali
​Do[(i,1,9), Return [i]]

Syed Ali
​Maybe try that?

Syed Ali
​Sorry to ask, but who uses mathematica nowadays. I remember working with it in the 90’s when I was in junior college. When I grew up I never used it for anything

Syed Ali
​And I certainly have never used it to do programming

Syed Ali
​Why would anyone do that

Paul Eduard
​@Syed Ali In a previous episode Xah talked about the mathematician who solved the Zodiac killer cipher

Paul Eduard
​*using Mathematica

Syed Ali
​@Paul Eduard thanks I must have missed the last episode. My question is a bit naive I admit

Syed Ali
​Even when I was getting my bachelors in applied mathematics I never used it for upper division courses

Paul Eduard
​Used matlab in universty but in an Algebra course, not computer prog course.

Syed Ali
​I used matlab for some things

Syed Ali
​I’m not hating on mathematica. Just haven’t seen it being used a lot

Sai Ashirwad
​When I did my undergrad in computer science (not too long ago), I remember being confused by the fact that a senior of mine used mathematica for his thesis.

Paul Eduard
​Octave is a free version of matlab ... Right?

BartholomewJS
​Thanks. will do.

Syed Ali
​@Paul Eduard I am not familiar

BartholomewJS
​@Xah Lee Thanks for the answers!

Paul Eduard
​@Xah Lee .. isn't Perl and Javascript based on the Lamda calculus? C++ has a lambda function as well but yes I have only used them as procedural

BartholomewJS
​"If you have no brain, you can implement C." - Xah Lee, 2021

Cortez Phenix
​good talk

Xah Lee
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