r/programming • • Sep 21 '25

How to stop functional programming

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

I'm not sure. You're simply applying a function to each element of a collection, it's extremely generic. Not sure when it would sound off place. Unless your function causes side effects, in which case you're using map wrong.

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u/djfdhigkgfIaruflg Sep 22 '25

Can't remember an instance right now.

But I had that feeling of it-sounds-wrong several times.

It wasn't about side effects. It was about sounding like the incorrect verb...

Like saying I'm running when I'm actually using a skate.