Re:Opinions on functional programming and OCaml
by magnito2123 on Saturday December 23, 2017 @12:20PM
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I find this hard to read because some of his arguments are just subjective rants about style.
His argument about "mutations" and "passing values around" is exactly what makes FP great. It is to prevent side effects, which makes it hard to trace bugs when coding concurrently.
His argument about "mutations" and "passing values around" is exactly what makes FP great. It is to prevent side effects, which makes it hard to trace bugs when coding concurrently.