[FRIAM] Classes, Complexity, and Functional Programming – Kent C. Dodds – Medium

[Marcus Daniels]

"I know, I know, functional programming is as fun as hitting your head with a brick."


It is fun!


"It is a bit scary letting go of "central control" Classes provide, very human. I mean, who's *boss*?"


The caller is the boss.  With FP you know that arguments are all read-only.

This gives you unambiguous dataflow and you know when parallelism can be done because the arguments just tell you.


let c = f(a)


..can run at once with..


let d = g(a)


..but not with..


let e = h(a,c)


Also "=" here isn't assignment, it is equality.


If I have a project that isn't FP, I make it into an FP project because it is the right thing to do.


Marcus



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From: Friam <friam-bounces at redfish.com> on behalf of Owen Densmore <owen at backspaces.net>
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Subject: [FRIAM] Classes, Complexity, and Functional Programming – Kent C. Dodds – Medium

​I know, I know, functional programming is as fun as hitting your head with a brick.

But this article does a nice job of showing how functional programming is very Self-like:
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​It's objects and functions all the way down, and for me the best is no `this`.

It is a bit scary letting go of "central control" Classes provide, very human. I mean, who's *boss*?

Do any of us *use* functional programming?

   -- Owen​

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