@VesselOfSpirit I mean strictly speaking it's all turing complete, right? it's all just about better ways to organize your thinking
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@VesselOfSpirit I think the usual benefit touted is that functional programming makes it easier to keep track of side effects -
@admittedlyhuman i don't find myself having problems with unwanted side effects i don't think -
@admittedlyhuman okay a little of problems. but it doesn't seem worth it -
@VesselOfSpirit well, it doesn't seem worth it to a lot of people, which is why functional programming is not very popular -
@admittedlyhuman but it's popular among cool people though -
@VesselOfSpirit I think freeing themselves from worries about side effects lets them do otherwise risky things you might not even consider -
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@VesselOfSpirit If you don't feel like you need it, you probably don't. -
@ContentOfMedia that's selling me against it though -
@VesselOfSpirit Sell me on selling it to you. -
@ContentOfMedia if you sell it to me i will have fewer problems with side effects
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@VesselOfSpirit FP is a little overrated but very good for pipeline data transformation imo (which is like half of programming)Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@VesselOfSpirit FP has concise and conceptually clean ways of expressing "take this data structure and turn it into that one"Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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