The Dao of Immutability (The Way of the Functional Programmer)
Functional programming is a foundational pillar of JavaScript, and immutability is a foundational pillar of functional programming. You can’t fully understand functional programming without first understanding immutability. This story may help.
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I was wandering the archives of an old library, and found a dark tunnel that led to the chamber of computation. There I found a scroll that seemed to have fallen on the floor, forgotten.
The scroll was encased in a dusty steel tube and labeled: “From the archives of The Church of Lambda.”
It was wrapped in a thin sheet of paper that read:
A master programmer and his apprentice sat in Turing meditation, contemplating the Lambda. The ...
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