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by junke 3462 days ago
The example is just about abstraction.

The imperative equivalent would be:

"Give me a Sazerac!"

(imperative, hehe)
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dllthomas 3461 days ago
"It is imperative that you give me a Sazerac!"
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junke 3461 days ago
Some time ago at University, we had to develop a puzzle solver in FP. In the report's introduction, I wrote something like "In this project, we must code imperatively in the functional programming language OCaml". The joke was well received.
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