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Re:“Mostly functional” programming does not work (2014) by coldtea on Monday June 22, 2015 @06:18PM (#9761572)
Functional is not about lazyness.

So you don't have to mix effects with laziness, you can mix effects and other functional constructs (pure functions, immutable values, closures, map, fold, homoiconicity and macros, etc) and you still get a huge benefit.

So the theme of the article "mostly functional can't work" is wrong.

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Re:“Mostly functional” programming does not work (2014) by tome on Tuesday June 23, 2015 @01:39AM (#9762807)
> So the theme of the article "mostly functional can't work" is wrong.

You're right. It's not really an issue of "functional" at all. It's worth noting that the author is an incorrigible (yet gentle) troll who likes to poke fun at Haskell and non-Haskell languages alike.

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Re:“Mostly functional” programming does not work (2014) by AnimalMuppet on Monday June 22, 2015 @06:49PM (#9761694)
But (if I understood correctly), the article was about lazy functional, even if that was not stated in the title.

Whether or not I read the article correctly, tome's comment was brilliant. It very succinctly exposed the pragmatic issue at stake.

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