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This question has been going through my mind quite a lot lately and since I haven't found a convincing answer to it I would like to know if other users
of this site have thought about it as well.
In the recent years, even though OOP is still the most popular programming paradigm, functional programming…
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This question has been going through my mind quite a lot lately and since I haven't found a convincing answer to it I would like to know if other users
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In the recent years, even though OOP is still the most popular programming paradigm, functional programming…
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When would you NOT want to use functional programming? What is it not so good at?
I am more looking for disadvantages of the paradigm as a whole, not things like "not widely used", or "no good debugger available". Those answers may be correct as of now, but they deal with FP being a new concept (an…
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I recently started studying functional programming using Haskell and came upon this article on the official Haskell wiki: How to read Haskell.
The article claims that short variable names such as x, xs, and f are fitting for Haskell code, because of conciseness and abstraction. In essence, it claims…
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It seems to me that functional programming is a great thing. It eliminates state and makes it much easier to automatically make code run in parallel.
Many programmers who were first taught imperative programming styles find it very difficult to learn functional programming, because it is so different…
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