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Re:Classes are a way of writing higher order functions by skohan on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @12:53PM (#24422973)
It's worth noting that there are drawbacks to functional programming as well. It tends to result in a lot of copying, which is also not optimal for performance.
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Re:Classes are a way of writing higher order functions by ollysb on Wednesday September 09, 2020 @01:32PM (#24423478)
This is somewhat though not entirely solved by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persistent_data_structure
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