functional-programming - Concepts

Explore concepts tagged with "functional-programming"

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Concepts

Out of the Tar Pit - An influential 2006 paper by Ben Moseley and Peter Marks arguing that complexity is the single largest source of failure in software, and proposing a discipline of avoiding it through state minimization and functional design.
Side Effects - Observable changes to state or interactions with the outside world that occur during the execution of a function or operation.
Pure Functions - Functions that always return the same output for the same input and produce no side effects.