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Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the root of all evil

When you invoke a function in an imperative programming language, you pass arguments to that function. But that function may also operate on global mutable state, meaning there are other factors in the operation of that function than merely the arguments you pass to it. To some extent this kind of contextual, implicit…
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Jun 11, 2019Rethinking the filesystem as global mutable state, the root of all evil by stargrave10388

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