Tony Morris

"All programs must have side effects to be useful" - can we please stop repeating this awful lie?

@puffnfresh Is that side effects in the sense of talking to a database or in the sense of any kind of output?

@seanparsons "my program talks to a database therefore it side-effects" is nonsense.

@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

@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.

@dibblego @puffnfresh @seanparsons Sorry, I don't quite understand. :-)