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0 pointswredue1y ago0 comments

>it is much more likely to be correct

It is not. FP programs measurably have at least as many defects as non-FP programs.

There is literally no reason to subject yourself and, worse, your users, to the garbage of FP.

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I even know where this comes from. Some very popular circa 2000 book on programming that coined this dogma without a proof, based on the fact that writing a type-correct program in haskell isn’t trivial.

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0 pointswredue1y ago0 comments

>it is much more likely to be correct

It is not. FP programs measurably have at least as many defects as non-FP programs.

There is literally no reason to subject yourself and, worse, your users, to the garbage of FP.

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wruza1y ago

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