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by michaelochurch 4034 days ago
The singular composite of expressions is not a necessity, but to avoid it you have to give names to all your intermediate states, whereas a typical imperative language reuses the same name repeatedly.

Interesting way to put it.

I like to tell people that they program in languages where every type signature is "Any -> IO Any". It's technically true, but it gets some weird looks.
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saryant 4034 days ago
Last weekend at LambdaConf (functional programming conference in Boulder) we were joking that all programming is fundamentally just a function of String -> Any.

Fewer weird looks when you make that joke surrounded by Haskellites and Scalaistas.

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michaelochurch 4034 days ago
How was LambdaConf, by the way? I wasn't able to make it this year but I'd like to go next year.
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saryant 4034 days ago
It was great. Definitely looking forward to 2016.
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