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Functional Programming Is a Bigger Mistake Than You Think

Rust is basically an imperative language right but it's got all the wonderful pixie dust that came from standard ML. The imperative languages were too influential from 1977 hours. And then there was pure FP which as you say isn't the greatest like it has its great ideas out of their own issues. We're only really seeing true hybrids like rust that marry them beautifully now. It's really changing the landscape.

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