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Functional Programming

The core idea is that you're trying to do programming based around pure functions, which means writing functions in a way that there are no side effects. The analogy i like to use is a a stump boxes for guitars. Can o think of each affects pedal as a pure function. An input goes into the pedal and an output comes out. So it's a pretty big paradime shif for people in terms of a learning to programm in this style. It requires thinking in a whole different way,. especially when ou you start thinking about immutable data, and not just changing a variable or something like that.

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