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Referential transparency makes things so much simpler, there is so much less stuff to keep track of, when your program is much less prone to random state in one
by pavelludiq 16y ago
Referential transparency makes things so much simpler, there is so much less stuff to keep track of, when your program is much less prone to random state in one part of your code affecting another.
Its not the "holly grail of programming", its more like "the less broken type of programming".
- dsc 16y agoI think I'm running out of ideas as to where I would IMMEDIATELY want to use it. A list of neat projects that should highlight the use of functional programming would be useful in this case.