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Re:Admitting That Functional Programming Can Be Awkward (2007) by imtringued on Saturday October 24, 2020 @02:28PM (#24881004)
The article didn't talk about global mutable state. Nobody likes global mutable state. Nobody, not even C programmers. If possible mutable state should always be local to a function.
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Re:Admitting That Functional Programming Can Be Awkward (2007) by Izkata on Saturday October 24, 2020 @02:39PM (#24881067)
Scroll down to where it talks about the game "Bumbler" - the game environment is global mutable state.
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