"All programs must have side effects to be useful" - can we please stop repeating this awful lie?
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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 Let me say something blasphemous. There is a pure-functional RNG on github right now, killing fairies.
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@dibblego@puffnfresh@seanparsons Sorry, I don't quite understand. :-) -
@ctford@puffnfresh@seanparsons "DB operation is [or isn't] pure" is equal in truth to "triangles are hotter than squares." Not even false. - Show replies
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@dibblego@puffnfresh@seanparsons About the fairies, I mean. A pure function representing RNG makes sense, of course. -
@ctford@puffnfresh@seanparsons Some people are shocked by the idea that I can take any computation and model it pure-functionally.
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