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I think it is an allusion to the story of Cinderella [0], some versions of which have her carriage transforming (back) into a pumpkin at midnight. I see the im

• yrashk 10y ago
  Yes, that's the allusion! The implication was that rather systems composed of functional programs but non-functional databases are not functional (i.e. the functional components are dwarfed by the imperative nature of mainstream databases)
• nickbauman 10y ago
  This pumpkin analogy goes away when you consider a a functional database is one where only writes and reads happen (no updates). Indeed this is what functional means: And object is distinct from its state because, in the real world, we do not consider what something is to be the same as what happens to it. Imperative programming locks the two together inseparably. Imperative is where we are merely the accretion of what happens to us. We have no history and no future.