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Re:Functional Programming Doesn’t Work (and what to do about... by antirez on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @06:55AM (#1020358)
Everything pure in programming will tend to have similar problems I guess. I like languages where imperative, object oriented and functional constructs can be mixed together, and I think Ruby is one of the best languages from this point of view.
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Re:Functional Programming Doesn’t Work (and what to do about... by elblanco on Tuesday December 29, 2009 @11:38AM (#1020702)
Upvoted for pragmatism. I like Python for this as well.
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Re:Functional Programming Doesn’t Work (and what to do about... by kburn on Wednesday December 30, 2009 @08:16AM (#1022365)
upvoted because that comment made too much sense to sit at 0.
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