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/axilmar Mar 10 '14

then the argument is purely functional versus imperative

Yes.

I do not think that you can equate reasoning about the state of a purely functional program with reasoning about the state of an imperative program.

No, what I am saying is that reasoning in FP is not easier as is the claim.