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Functional programming absolutely forbids mutating values

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Commitment issues, but make it code. In pure functional programming paradigms, once a variable is assigned a value, it can absolutely never be changed again, forcing developers to spawn entirely new copies just to update a simple counter.

Functional programming absolutely forbids mutating values
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