On Tue, Jul 4, 2017 at 7:02 PM, Sean Conner <sean@conman.org> wrote:
> > are familiar with functional syntax and the characteristic "reversal".
> That's surprising to me. At work, I've had to explain closures and functional programming.
Functional syntax is not functional programming. I actually meant function call syntax and chaining as is common in procedural programming, specifically that h(g(f(x))) is widely understood to mean that x is fed to f, its result to g, and its result to h.
The C++ iostream thing comes to mind as an attempt to use "arrows" instead of functions. I have not met a single C++ programmer who has not attempted to avoid it, usually by going to the C language IO library.
