Mostly functional programming is broken because it cannot solve the problem it sets out to, namely controlling side effects.

Mostly functional programming is broken because it cannot solve the problem it sets out to, namely controlling side effects. Because the language type system does not control them, "mostly functional" programming is no more useful than standard imperative programming.

Posted by TazeTSchnitzel on Jun 22, 2015, 12:42 PM

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