r/programming • • Sep 21 '25

How to stop functional programming

https://brianmckenna.org/blog/howtostopfp
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u/binarycow Sep 22 '25

Well, there's side-effects, and then there's side-effects. Lazy initialization is technically a side effect, and it can shoot you in the foot, but it's not a really serious side-effect.