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Re:Which Programming Languages Are Functional? by chvid on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @11:00AM (#10812547)
Don't get me wrong; I think "no side effects" is a very useful way of programming for a large number of problems. But not all problems. In particular problems related to user interface and system integration.

And languages I listed (JavaScript, C#, Swift and Java) have all stolen large chunks of ideas pioneered by functional programming and put it into their latest release.

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Re:Which Programming Languages Are Functional? by tombert on Wednesday December 30, 2015 @11:46AM (#10812861)
If you take a language like Haskell, you can utilize an FRP framework like Netwire to write pure-ish code whilst having reactive things. I'm currently writing an ncurses application that does exactly that.
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