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		sausagefeet on Sept 30, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: “I hate almost all software” — Ryan Dahl What do you mean by point 2? Unless you don't plan on doing any I/O, you can't write purely functional code in JS. Not that you can in Lisp either...

asynchrony on Sept 30, 2011 [–]

I meant that there is nothing about JS that prohibits writing pure functions and reaping all the associated benefits (formal reasoning, etc.)

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