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Re:Scaling Django to 8 Billion Page Views by burntsushi on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @01:52PM (#6446122)
> I'm learning functional programming at the moment, and hope to have a similar epiphany :)

I've done quite a bit of FP, but I've still held out from acquiring a traditionally FP language as a go-to language in my toolbox. Instead, I've found the intense focus on abstraction and representation in the FP world leak over into my interaction with other more imperative languages.

Re:Scaling Django to 8 Billion Page Views by girvo on Friday September 27, 2013 @04:50AM (#6455989)
Yes! Immutability and a lack of side effects has changed my mindset for the better. It really helps keep things understandable.