[stingraycharles]

It’s about a specific branch of functional programming that values an almost mathematical rigor, though (like Haskell).

I don’t think the criticism of the author applies LISP-style functional programming, which is much more accommodating to embracing chaos.

[epgui]

Yeah no, that criticism of Haskell is nonsense.

[stingraycharles]

It wasn’t intended as criticism of Haskell at all, I love that language. I have a whole bunch of open source Haskell projects under my name.

It was intended as a criticism of the article, that its whole assumption “FP == making invalid states impossible to represent” is incorrect.

I recognize that it’s very much possible to embrace chaos with Haskell, and I should probably have worded that better.

[yakshaving_jgt]

Utterly ridiculous.

In Haskell you can “embrace chaos” exactly as much as you desire. It’s a general purpose programming language.