
Out of the Tar Pit
The Eric Normand Podcast
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Functional Programming - The Worst Case
Most software that people write nowadays does not have, is not like that. There are bugs and a lot of them they don't know where they're coming from. We must therefore conclude that the main weakness of functional programming is the flip side of its main strength. One potential approach is the elegant system of monads used by Haskell. But it can very easily be abused to create a stateful side affecting sub language. And hence reintroduce all the problems we are seeking to avoid. I'll be it. This is where the grammar police would come in. The one thing that saves a sentence is the potentially. It is potentially, you potentially have to look at every single piece of code.
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