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What is functional programming? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) by Melatonin@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/outoftheloop@lemmy.world

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I've seen a couple posts in the top in the last 6 hours feed, and it seems like people are really up in arms about this functional programming stuff. Not really sure what it even is.

It looks like it's people writing bad programming or something? Like a lot of extra stuff that is not necessary?

EDIT: sorry everyone, I'm not a programmer and I don't know to much other than a little java and python. I guess I should have posted this in Explain Like I'm Five.

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[–] tiredofsametab@fedia.io 2 points 3 months ago

I tried to write a number of things, but think wikipedia or something might have a better answer. I mostly wilrite in golang which is not functional, but I do occasionally maintain some things in elixir which is and I think it's pretty neat. I'm sure if you read about it and have specific questions, folks here will try to answer them.