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		wredue on Sept 5, 2024 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: What's functional programming all about? (2017) >it is much more likely to be correct It is not. FP programs measurably have at least as many defects as non-FP programs. There is literally no reason to subject yourself and, worse, your users, to the garbage of FP.

wruza on Sept 5, 2024 [–]

I even know where this comes from. Some very popular circa 2000 book on programming that coined this dogma without a proof, based on the fact that writing a type-correct program in haskell isn’t trivial.

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