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troadtoday at 1:59 AM2 repliesview on HN

> Static types, algebraic data types, making illegal states unrepresentable: the functional programming tradition has developed extraordinary tools for reasoning about programs.

But none of these things are functional programming? This is more the tradition of 'expressive static types' than it is of FP.

What about Lisp, Racket, Scheme, Clojure, Erlang / Elixir...


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esafaktoday at 2:12 AM

I think the more relevant functional programming quote is

> The immutability of the log is the entire value proposition.

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