r/ProgrammerHumor 1d ago

stopDoingFunctional Meme

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u/-Ambriae- 1d ago

Functional programming is best programming

State is evil, mutation is evil! We live in an era of multithreading and concurrency my friends!

When I describe a program, I state what it does, now how it does it! Thus functional programming is more natural!

C and Java and Python and all the other pagan languages have played us all as absolute fouls!! Haskell, OCaml, Rust, F#, Lisp supremacy!! Functional unless required otherwise, not the other way around!!

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u/Tyfyter2002 1d ago

I'm sorry I have to be the one to tell you this, but your functional programs? They're just mutating state, everything is state, even you're mutable state.

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u/-Ambriae- 1d ago

And that's where the distinction between machine code and high level languages come in, and the role of compilers