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I think Djeikstra was talking about our limited ability to reason about what program actually does by looking at it source code. FP helps but there is still a l
by kikimora 7y ago
I think Djeikstra was talking about our limited ability to reason about what program actually does by looking at it source code. FP helps but there is still a long way ahead of us. For example I can create spaghetti code in any language and any programming paradigm. FP helps me to eliminate state, next big thing should help me to eliminate unclear and complex control flow, bad abstractions and clunky API’s.