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by l_dopa 3624 days ago
The problem's not on your end -- a lot of these blogs are just junk, probably the vast majority of ones that fall under "advocacy". As far as I can tell, the author's objection to conditionals is based on a misunderstanding of a different blog post[0]. It's nonsense.

Really understanding where FP is coming from requires an introduction to programming language semantics[1]. Interesting stuff, but not immediately useful to a working C programmer.

[0] https://existentialtype.wordpress.com/2011/03/15/boolean-bli...

[1] http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~rwh/pfpl.html