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This. It's my biggest peave that FP advocacy is now so wrapped up in Haskell and allusion of category theory based enlightenment. It sometimes feels a little like some of the old schools template shenanigans you could get up with C++, ostensible it was all so generic and reusable but in reality all it useful did was massage your ego by helping you feel really clever.


Ah, but you see, now it's a different set of people who get to feel really clever...




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