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Functional Programming vs. Object Oriented Programming (mmhaskell.com)

submitted 9 months ago by mac@programming.dev to c/programming@programming.dev

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[–] jdnewmil@lemmy.ca 26 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Functions don't return... equals goto. Everything must be done by side effects... all variables are global. Global state mutation is inheritance... no grok. Every call is non-blocking and spawns a new thread... atomic bomb for junior software engineers.

??? ... shorting the stock of the company that adopts this.

Profit!

[–] abhibeckert@lemmy.world 8 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

??? … shorting the stock of the company that adopts this.

Screw that I'm going to invest... how do you think Elon Musk got so rich? He did it with sloppy engineering.

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