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Why Functional Programming Should Be the Future of Software Development (spectrum.ieee.org)
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[–] Ephera@lemmy.ml 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah, probably also worth pointing out that the original LISP came out in 1958.

A function isn't complex to portray in memory when you're passing it to other functions. It's also just a pointer to where your function's code lives. @ttmrichter@lemmy.ml