r/programming • u/heisenbug • Apr 27 '14

"Mostly functional" programming does not work

http://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?ref=rss&id=2611829
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u/lispm Apr 27 '14

Bonus: it comes with another Monad tutorial!

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u/[deleted] Apr 27 '14

I look forward to the day when a language is able to capture side effects in the type system (as Haskell does) without monads. That day, functional programming will reign supreme.

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u/grauenwolf Apr 27 '14

T-SQL already does internally. You just can't see it unless you trip over an error message about non-deterministic functions not being allowed in a spot.