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You know, I've learned something today! When some people talk about functional programming, they talk about monads and iterating with recursion and lambda calculus. Other people talking about functional programming mean using data-oriented abstractions, where functions operate on data in well-defined ways, to avoid state and interlocked dependencies[3]. I've been calling the latter a "functional style", but clearly t…
functional in the small and OO in the large" seems a good path. That's what I like about Erlang as well. Once you recognize processes as your objects, this philosophy just flows out of the language.
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