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Re:Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous by tome on Thursday January 09, 2020 @02:57PM (#22004953)
> not to mention, I think functional language syntax is generally write-only and not readable by others or yourself in 6 months

This is rather tangential, and sorry to hijack your message to get on my soapbox, but I and many others who program in Haskell and a dynamic language (Python in my case) find that Haskell code we've written is far easier to come back to than code we've written in the dynamic language.

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Re:Copying data is wasteful, mutating data is dangerous by zackmorris on Friday January 10, 2020 @11:00AM (#22011850)
Ya I tend to agree actually, but in the real world I keep getting scolded for being too "functional". I think that it might come down to the easy != simple argument, which the whole CS industry is still grappling with in other areas as well.
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