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> I get the same vibe from certain other groups in this industry, most recently from functional programmers and Rust afficionados

Perl one-liner guys used to exemplify this. But I don't really agree that functional programmers do, except for Haskell and people who use lots of the car and cdr compositions, or those who use too much metaprogramming, or... okay maybe you're right. But at least the fundamental premise of functional programming is simple..



Functional programming usually includes Lisp, whose advocates mainly like showing off how powerful and complicated it is. (see: loop macro, call/cc)




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