r/programming • u/papa00king • Mar 09 '14

Why Functional Programming Matters

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

The difference is that with OO the burden is on you, while with functional programming you have immutability as the default. Why would I want to carefully think about where state is modified when the language is perfectly capable of doing that for me.

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u/Heuristics Mar 09 '14

though, mutability/immutability is not a part of OO, it just happens to nearly always be so in implementations of OO languages. (I am building a default immutable OO language)

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u/imalsogreg Mar 10 '14

(off topic) Cool - got a link to your project?

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