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Is functional programming the hipster programming paradigm?

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The Imperative Versus the Descriptive Nature of Functional Programming

A lot of object oriented stuff is very imperative in the sense that a lot of the things you write are statement based. The declarative style of functional programming is using utility functions like map or reduce to evaluate what you're doing. With React, if you want to change something in the counter, you call the function increase count and it just has the virtual DOM that changes it on the page. That's really the difference where I don't care how it's done as long as it is done. M-M who answered the question, find the area of an N interesting polygon, kind of an interesting one. A lifeboat badge is an answer score of 20 or more to a

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