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From: "Dmitry A. Kazakov" <mailbox@dmitry-kazakov.de>
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Subject: Re: Haskell, anyone?
Date: Tue, 17 Nov 2015 09:26:00 +0100
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On Mon, 16 Nov 2015 15:23:16 -0800, Paul Rubin wrote:

> Hadrien Grasland <hadrien.grasland@gmail.com> writes:

>> "The compiler and the user are both clever enough". 
> 
> It's true that there are FP idioms you have to get used to if you're
> coming from imperative programming.

Because declarative programming is non-algorithmic and no programming at
all, if taken seriously. It is like the idea of stateless programming, just
a fiction.

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