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"Completely functional" obviously doesn't work as there would be no side effects aside from your computer getting warm. Every functional language has escape mec
by spullara 13y ago
"Completely functional" obviously doesn't work as there would be no side effects aside from your computer getting warm. Every functional language has escape mechanisms that allow you to see what the program is doing. "Mostly functional" is as close as you can get to functional.
- the_af 13y agoErik addresses this in the article. What he calls "mostly functional" isn't FP with some carefully used escape mechanism, but imperative languages adding FP features here and there. He argues that the benefits of true FP get negated in hybrid languages.