Additionally you should know that functional programming is a lie. Your computer is an imperative machine with no understanding of functional programming
Yet you program a register machine as if it were a stack machine all the time without batting an eyelid!
Re:Can I do FP in my language?
by crimsonalucard on Saturday August 05, 2017 @07:54PM
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>Because you can't make any guarantees about state in a language that wasn't intended for FP because how do you know what side effects the built-in functions are having
This is your original argument. I said that FP programs offer none of the said guarantees because they are at it's core compiled into imperative programs... You responded with a statement about a stack machine being an abstraction over a "register machine." How does the stack machine statement move your original argument forward...? We're getting side tracked here...
Re:Can I do FP in my language?
by hiptobecubic on Sunday August 06, 2017 @01:37AM
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You don't. It's entirely possible to write not-at-all-functional code in Scala. One of the many reasons I dislike it.
Re:Can I do FP in my language?
by crimsonalucard on Sunday August 06, 2017 @12:55PM
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ah never knew that. My mistake. I just chose a random "functional" language as an example.
Additionally you should know that functional programming is a lie. Your computer is an imperative machine with no understanding of functional programming. The compiler transforms your functional program into an imperative one.