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Re:Functional Programming Jargon by bhrgunatha on Sunday July 24, 2016 @10:52PM (#12156161)
I think it would be even better if the repo had the javascript examples alongside another language which is more widely accepted as a functional language for example Haskell, Scala or Clojure.

Seeing examples together to me is an even stronger way of illustrating the concepts and differences between implementations.

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Re:Functional Programming Jargon by catnaroek on Monday July 25, 2016 @12:17AM (#12156440)
A more serious objection is that many structures used in functional programming have associated equational laws, which JavaScript provides a very poor medium to formulate - never mind actually prove. The ability to query the physical identity of every object makes the equational theory of JavaScript objects completely trivial: every object is equal to itself (physically in memory) and nothing else.
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