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Functional core, imperative shell (2012)
Purely functional code makes some things easier to understand: because values don't change, you can call functions and know that only their return value matters—they don't change anything outside themselves. But this makes many real-world applications difficult: how do you write to a database, or to the screen? In…
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| Submitted | Title on HN | Points | Comments |
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| Sep 21, 2018 | Functional core, imperative shell (2012) by fagnerbrack | 389 | 126 |
| Feb 19, 2023 | Functional Core, Imperative Shell (2012) by kachnuv_ocasek | 137 | 39 |
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