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I'm not sure if this answers your question but: "Absence if side effects"?

• adityaathalye 4y ago
  I think poetry captures the feeling better :) O Lambda the Ultimate, bless the reader of these words. That their core be functional, and their functions be pure. That their data be immutable, so they may know the value of values. That their systems be composable, so they may grow and scale with grace. That their States only mutate in pleasantly surprising ways. For otherwise nothing lives. Nothing evolves. In the name of the alpha, the beta, and the eta… (λx.x x) (λx.x x) cf. this section of my post: https://www.evalapply.org/posts/what-makes-functional-programming-systems-functional/index.html#and-all-that-said-i-leave-you-with-this-prayer https://www.evalapply.org/posts/what-makes-functional-progra...