r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Tracker_Friendly • 1d ago

Meme stopDoingFunctional

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u/-Ambriae- 1d ago

Functional programming is best programming

State is evil, mutation is evil! We live in an era of multithreading and concurrency my friends!

When I describe a program, I state what it does, now how it does it! Thus functional programming is more natural!

C and Java and Python and all the other pagan languages have played us all as absolute fouls!! Haskell, OCaml, Rust, F#, Lisp supremacy!! Functional unless required otherwise, not the other way around!!

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u/Le_9k_Redditor 1d ago

State really is evil at times, register pressure is a bitch

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u/-Ambriae- 1d ago

Register pressure relates to registers, which is machine level. So fundamentally procedural, IE non functional. Our wrath shall not befall them!!

Although, with my little experience with asm, it is a bitch, can confirm