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Re:Crafting Functions by marcosdumay on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @05:28PM (#24781830)
Notice that the post is written in Javascript.

Abstraction and composition are great to surface the main characteristics of your algorithm. A compiler then can take those characteristics and verify if they make sense. Different compilers can do that in different amounts, and the Javascript one does the absolute minimum possible. On this case, you get no safety, just more complex code.

Go ask a Haskell developer and the first reaction you will get is probably "wait, you were running getData inside the original function?!"

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Re:Crafting Functions by remexre on Wednesday October 14, 2020 @09:25PM (#24783771)
> Go ask a Haskell developer and the first reaction you will get is probably "wait, you were running getData inside the original function?!"

Haskell developer here, this was indeed my first reaction :P

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Re:Crafting Functions by tluyben2 on Thursday October 15, 2020 @10:29AM (#24788992)
It would be more interesting to see these things in multiple languages so it shows how it would be done (best) in those. Learning things js centered is is not good for everyone.
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