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		CharlieDigital on March 11, 2023 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Were React hooks a mistake? If every language can be functional, than no languages are functional. Would you agree that C# is not functional? If you agree that C# is not functional, than F# is also not functional. Nearly every construct that can be expressed in F# can be expressed in C#.

kaba0 on March 11, 2023 [–]

No, C# has plenty of features making functional programming possible, so it is definitely on the spectrum of FP languages.

Let’s go at it from the other direction - is Haskell functional? Because it has unsafe pointer access and unsafe IO, so it can pretty much express every C# program as well, right?

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