"All programs must have side effects to be useful" - can we please stop repeating this awful lie?
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@puffnfresh@seanparsons How so? If the state of the database changes as a result of the function being called it's not ref. transparent.
@ctford @puffnfresh @seanparsons It is precisely this elevation of particular types of computation that compels the protest against nonsense
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@dibblego@puffnfresh@seanparsons's reply used database access as an example only. Do you see egs as a blocker to abstract thinking? -
@ctford@puffnfresh@seanparsons I see examples as a blocker to making sense in this context.
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