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Re:Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? ... by dispose13432 on Monday December 19, 2016 @02:13PM (#13214104)
Me question is if there are significant large codebases built in pure functional languages, and if there are statistics as to which ones have fewer bugs - functional or imperative?
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Re:Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? ... by DigitalJack on Monday December 19, 2016 @03:03PM (#13214562)
I think the concern is less about bugs and more about productivity.
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