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What is functional programming? (lemmy.dbzer0.com)

submitted 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I've seen a couple posts in the top in the last 6 hours feed, and it seems like people are really up in arms about this functional programming stuff. Not really sure what it even is.

It looks like it's people writing bad programming or something? Like a lot of extra stuff that is not necessary?

EDIT: sorry everyone, I'm not a programmer and I don't know to much other than a little java and python. I guess I should have posted this in Explain Like I'm Five.

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 weeks ago

hmmm. maybe look at it like a style of writing where you try to keep nouns separate from verbs.

think of verbs here as the something agnostic to context and can be joined to make bigger tasks. e.g. draw + color + cut paper for an art

there's other nuances on the style but verbs would be the functions and nouns would be the data.