I agree. It's like saying that a Porsche is 'better' than a Ford, but you own a Ford because the Porsche costs more money than you make in a year.
I think functional language proponents want to compare languages using one set of metrics, even though they actually pick a language to write software in on an entirely different set of metrics. I mean they must either do that, or be entirely all talk, since very little software is being written in functional languages.
I think functional language proponents want to compare languages using one set of metrics, even though they actually pick a language to write software in on an entirely different set of metrics. I mean they must either do that, or be entirely all talk, since very little software is being written in functional languages.