
Is functional programming the hipster programming paradigm?
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Object Oriented Programming or Functional Programming?
JavaScript isn't really purely functional. It is not. And what's cool about this style, though, is because it's all functions and layers of functions and functions, calling functions and stuff is it's incredibly modular. Because it's so modular, you know exactly which function was called. And you know exactlyWhich function changed what and which function returned x, y, or z. That's a very, that's why a lot of people call it pure because there's no things that could change what what is actually being returned except for what you define to be changing things. If that makes sense? Cassidy: I'm probably more comfortable with object oriented purely out of programming.
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