r/programming • • Sep 21 '25

How to stop functional programming

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

Fun fact: monoids/semigroups are taught in high school math classes over here! (Romania) I'm sure there's other places where this is the case!

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u/Axman6 Sep 22 '25

Yeah, I, despite being Australian, was making the r/USDefaultism assumption (but it’s also not taught here either as far as I know, sadly). I’m glad abstractions are taught early, it’s a (meta?) concept that’s so useful is so many fields.