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Re:Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other pro... by ummonk on Sunday October 06, 2019 @01:38PM (#21173518)
By that standard every programming language is functional, since the compiled program is a function.
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Re:Learning Haskell is no harder than learning any other pro... by ummonk on Sunday October 06, 2019 @07:20PM (#21175924)
Since I got downvoted let me elaborate: it isn’t relevant that the universe is a function. What matters is whether the universe can be modeled better as the composition of pure functions or as some stateful composition (e.g. interacting stateful objects).

Programming languages aren’t about the final result but about how you decompose the result into modular abstractions.

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