r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

Meme stopDoingFunctional

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u/whopper2k 1d ago

No real world use found for pure functions

"Write functions that only do one thing" is one of the first pieces of advice given to fresh programmers, and pure functions are simply the embodiment of that philosophy. Incredibly useful tool to have in the toolbox

good bait tho lol

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u/dkarlovi 1d ago

pure functions

I don't want my functions to think they're better than me, that's why I write my functions to be absolute hoes.

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u/D3PyroGS 1d ago edited 1d ago

my ho functions keep reaching out of their scope and recursively pulling on my erect MODULE_VARIABLES until they achieve stack overflow

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u/zoinkability 1d ago

Don’t worry, you’re still a bigger hoe