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> It's so divorced from writing software as to be gibberish.

Only if the software you're writing is A) aggressively simplified, so as to be amenable to informal analysis, or B) garbage.

If you're only interested in writing garbage, or perhaps you don't even notice that's what you're doing, then the appeal of FP is significantly reduced.



Minus the tone, I agree with the substance of your comment. In my experience, people who don't care about this don't really understand it either.




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