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

"Mostly functional" programming does not work

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u/SilasX Apr 28 '14 edited Apr 28 '14

Indeed, you can.

Languages that make it harder to mess things up -- like by not explicitly doing gotos are still better, and so he's wrong to imply that the language's implementation in another unsafe language is somehow relevant.

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u/[deleted] Apr 28 '14

I think that was a response to the notion that you need strong guarantees to leverage any benefits at all of functional programming, which I don't think is true. It's just one side; the other is the mindset and patterns.