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A comment on Did Functional Programming Get It Wrong (Part 2) – Minecraft-Style Crafting.

Re:Did Functional Programming Get It Wrong (Part 2) – Minecr... by xyzzy4747 on Saturday July 02, 2022 @08:05AM (#31958338)
It would help if this article gave some examples of the superior coding style that doesn’t use functions. I would be very curious what it would look like or how it would be bug free. Would it use lots of goto statements like the early computing days? I have to say I don’t entirely understand this article.
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Re:Did Functional Programming Get It Wrong (Part 2) – Minecr... by reinman on Saturday July 02, 2022 @08:12AM (#31958377)
For example, in Multix the browser can issue a crafting request for page contents

The fact the HTML might sit on a remote server is a crafting detail left to the categorical machine

I have some examples on Twitter

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Re:Did Functional Programming Get It Wrong (Part 2) – Minecr... by reinman on Saturday July 02, 2022 @08:13AM (#31958385)
The server in turn may need to issue crafting requests to load stuff from disk

The nice thing about crafting is that stuff gets cached in inventory as a side effect. You can toss inventory as a way to clear the cache

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