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on 2/12/2014 8:39 AM
While imperative programming language paradigm depends on updating mutable variables (or introducing side effect) to change state of the program, pure functional programming only uses immutable data structures to represent their state. Side effect is required if you need your program to do any work (i.e., I/O), but undesirable side-effects are the root of many … Continue reading →