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Re: Open-source FRC code

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Originally Posted by artdutra04 View Post
For all we know they might want us to program it in Scheme*.
Hey, don't knock Scheme too hard. It's a good language to know, and there's a lot of powerful things that can be done with it.

While functional languages (scheme, lisp, ml, etc) are not used nearly as much as procedural languages, it's still useful to know one. Having more tools in your belt (or knowledge in your head) gives you more ways to approach a problem, which will help to make you a better programmer. Once you know any one object-oriented procedural language, like C++ or Java, it becomes very easy to learn another. That does not translate so well to learning a functional language.

When reviewing resumes of applicants at work, I always look to see what languages they list. If they include some functional language, I always mentally give them a few bonus points.
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