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> FP could probably have had a lot more success if it didn't clamour on about pure functions so much

Note that there are many functional languages which don’t care about purity at all: for instance, Scheme, OCaml, SML and Elixir. I get annoyed when people confuse Haskell for the broader paradigm of functional programming. (Even though Haskell is my main programming language!)



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