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Some quotes of Knuth on functional programming:

"Out of the ~250 programs I wrote last year, 2-3 would have benefited from being written in a functional style."

"With 1 or even 2 hands tied behind your back it’s hard to do anything dangerous."

I remember looking this up once and couldn't find much. I guess he figures everything that can be written in functional style can be written in imperative style so why bother.



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