Is functional programming a maymay?

is functional programming a maymay?

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Yes

Yes

inb4 academic researchers who wrote said languages are trying to meme you into thinking you're not a "real programmer"

kek

No, I haven't ever tried it, but I do know that it has its uses. However as with any programming paradigm, it is not useful in all use cases.
Go read a book.

>brainlets: the thread

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yes, at least the haskell and lisp elitism part

in languages like C++ you can have aspects of functional programming like don't have unnecessary global state etc

All machine learning frameworks use some sort of functional paradigm, faggots.
Pure functional programming is retarded tho, the world is not stateless

>machine learning
>not a meme

>Not understanding that machine learning is a blanket term