>You have missed the point.

Tell me what you think the point is. Typically when someone thinks a point was missed they address the point rather than devolve the conversation into a condescending description about my character and how I should act. It's a sort of tactical what you're doing here. But who cares, no one is reading.

It's curious how you don't even address my points and just say that I missed the point when I'm the one dictating the point in my original comment. Typically this isn't how you respect other people and get them to respond positively to your comments, what you're doing will draw other people to support you but anger your target because of the condescension. I'm not sure what you're objective is because people aren't really reading this thread... it's already buried.

>It’s curious you think this piece is written by a “JavaScript programmer”,

The examples in the original piece are in javascript. Why don't you RTFA before commenting on the "point."

>and the person who responded to you here is a “junior” — the implication being that you know more.

The Junior thing was more of a retort. I said it with full awareness of what it implies and how the other person would take it because his tone obviously implies that he doesn't think he's a junior. Basically the replier has his own opinion which he is entitled to say (and that I respect) but when you say things like "dogmatic" and then vote me down... that's just not respectful. Since I can't vote him down I inject a bit of subtle rudeness in my replies as a subtle retort in return. Just being a mirror. Similar in a way to the subtle game you're playing. That's all this is.

>It might help to take a step back and assume intelligence in others: what if these people are smart? What could you learn from them? If you think the idea is wrong, assume it’s coming from a peer. One way you know you are doing that, is if you form your disagreement as a question.

Maybe you should take a step back and look at your own post. Telling people to shift their thinking implies you have a sort of superiority complex. As if you're not the one that's mistaken. How do you know I'm not a peer? How do you know I'm not superior. Perhaps you should take a look at yourself. You seem like a guy who thinks he's superior to me in programming but you haven't demonstrated as much, you haven't even addressed the point.

You went on a side tangent talking about my behavior. Trust me, if you want someone to change or listen to you, talking to them like this is not the path.

You want to know what will make people respond to you and listen to you? Address them without any subtle disrespect. It's very simple.

You could've responded to me like this:

I disagree with you. I also think there was a misunderstanding of the point. Here's why...

By proving the other person wrong without being disrespectful you can change the other person's' character. But obviously this isn't our objective here is it?

That being said take a look at this wikipedia post and tell me. Who missed the point?

https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Functional_programming

"Functional programming is sometimes treated as synonymous with purely functional programming, a subset of functional programming which treats all functions as deterministic mathematical functions, or pure functions. When a pure function is called with some given arguments, it will always return the same result, and cannot be affected by any mutable state or other side effects. This is in contrast with impure procedures, common in imperative programming, which can have side effects (such as modifying the program's state or taking input from a user). Proponents of purely functional programming claim that by restricting side effects, programs can have fewer bugs, be easier to debug and test, and be more suited to formal verification.[1][2]"

Literally that's the definition I'm following. It's one form of the definition and certainly a popular one. That's my opinion. You disagree? You think I missed the point? Elucidate. The original poster can disagree but my opinion is far from as he puts it "absurd."

Read the article. What definition of functional programming does that class with a setter even fit under? Ok he redefined it as a higher order function... Is what he doing procedural programming or functional programming. It looks to me he's doing a bit of everything and calling it a function. Does the guy even know that the class keyword is just sugar for "function" in javascript?

Look at this: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Refe...

Literally it says "classes" are just special functions. He's just reiterating the javascript spec as if it's a new fangled discovery. In fact, before ES6 all "classes" were written with the keyword "function." No dude. The article writer doesn't get it and neither does the person who responded to my post. When you do OOP with LISP you're not doing FP period. The article writer just noticed an isomorphism and is likely amazed by what all JS programmers were doing before ES6. Not to be insulting but the parent poster likely doesn't have much experience.

>I took the time to respond to you, because it looks like you have some real love for programming, but know less than you think. You can grow a lot more if you shift some of your thinking

I too took the time to respond to you. Despite your condescending attitude/game. Let's see where this goes.