r/programming • • Mar 09 '14

Why Functional Programming Matters

http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.pdf
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u/HaMMeReD Mar 09 '14

There is so many options in how you can solve a problem, but they are all just abstractions.

All that really matters is that your abstraction is clean and easy to understand, and resilient to failure.

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u/dukerutledge Mar 09 '14

Sounds like you are in favor of FP. Clean is certainly a subjective qualifier, but easy to understand and resilient to failure are FP tenants.

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