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jeffreyrogers on Feb 20, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Are Monads a Waste of Time?

Every discussion I've seen about functional programming is entirely divorced from the practicalities of real programming.

AnimalMuppet on Feb 20, 2018 [–]

OK, I'll bite. Here's the essential truth of functional programming, applicable to all of real programming: Constrain your state space or die.

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