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>Subsequently, you get judgements that are chock full of misconceptions of what FP actually is

I put the blame for that squarely on the Haskell cultists. They've caused everyone to have the impression that functional programming needs to have esoteric syntax and lazy evaluation by default.

It's like how the Java cultists have ruined OOP.




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