We like this for two reasons. First, anagrams are awesome. Secondly, even if you’re not an adherent of the functional programming approach, there are several lessons here every developer can heed.
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Those lessons are:
- The difference between a piece of code that works and a piece of code that crashes can be as small as a single character.
- Moving your code around can result in something that works but is entirely different in its end result.
- Code is never perfect. There’s always something else to fix.
Hat-tip to Dana McCallum for the observation:
“Functional programming” is an anagram of “malfunctioning program.”
— Dana McCallum (@DanaDanger) March 14, 2014
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