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functional only helps when you don't have to deal with things outside of your programs memory space. Functional starts looking the same once you start grabbing

by jshen 17y ago

functional only helps when you don't have to deal with things outside of your programs memory space. Functional starts looking the same once you start grabbing stuff from databases, calling rest services, pushing stuff to files, etc

eru 17y ago
You can get a good (simplified) overview of XMonad at this site (http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2007/05/01#xmonad_part1_model http://cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~dons/blog/2007/05/01#xmonad_part...). They show how to deal with lots a very side-effect happy domain, and still have a nice and clean design.
- jshen 17y ago
  this isn't an example of pure functional gluing together a bunch of external data sources and sinks.
  - jshen 17y ago
    ah, I see the kool-aid drinkers use the down-vote instead of reasoned debate.
  - eru 17y ago
    Why not? Especially the emphasis on data structures is quite exemplary in my opinion.