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There's always some rambling answer in every FP post about what FP _actually is_ which then devolves into senseless drivel and arguments.

If you wrote this in a book and gave it to me as a way to learn what FP is, I'd be pretty pissed if I paid for that book is all I'm saying.

Also, what in the actual fuck are you on about? FP is many things and some of them are less enforced than others depending on implementation, but I'm pretty sure in each FP book I've looked at has mentioned exactly this idea of data-flow. So either you are an amazing genius who sees what others can't, or you are just generating nonsense. Either way I don't care, HN is kind of a joke to me anymore.