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Re:Functools – The Power of Higher-Order Functions in Python by collyw on Friday July 09, 2021 @11:26AM (#27784661)
I was going to say something to that effect.

Functional programming is kind of cool unless it's someone else's code and you need to debug it.

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Re:Functools – The Power of Higher-Order Functions in Python by ebingdom on Friday July 09, 2021 @12:22PM (#27785355)
I'd much rather debug someone's pure functional code rather than trying to figure out how someone's imperative code got into some unexpected/invalid state.
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