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Quite so. I was just trying to make some small suggestions on how to handle the consequences of making that object immutable. Here are some links along the same lines: * _Aggregate…

Unix pipes don't do stream fusion, which is the optimisation to which he was referring.

For those that didn't know, Haskell does of course have list comprehensions: [x| x Here's an example finding consonants: [c| x

Not really. In the example, function composition, `.`, joins the functions together. You can smash a list of functions together but they'd all have to take and return the same type…

Creating a new value only gives you a stale data problem if you had pointers to the old value. You don't have to have pointers like that, it's a choice. To take an obvious example,…

This paper describes the differences between objects and ADTs, https://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/wcook/papers/OOPvsADT/CookOO...

Maybe try to aim for functional core, imperative shell, see https://www.destroyallsoftware.com/screencasts/catalog/funct...

Dropwizard was amazing when it came out and is still much better than deploying to Tomcat, say. But it's showing its age and I'd consider it too frameworky these days. My current c…