http://pragprog.com/magazines/2013-01/functional-programming-basics … ==> WRONG!! http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/dat/miranda/whyfp90.pdf … "It is a logical impossibility to make a language more powerful by omitting features"
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@cprieto Functional programming*is not*about not using assignments. You can do that in C. But about programming with higher-order functions.
@headinthebox @cprieto No, FP is about programming with functions and subsequently, equational reasoning.
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@davetchepak@dibblego i was talking to@TacticalGrace about this. When i discovered reverseSome in a codebase i was working on.
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