For Angry Java Developers: Scala Functional Programming

#21

I’d argue that’s the only thing it can mean. The rest is just a question of how much impurity you are willing to tolerate. If you want to actually have a program do anything, none is not an option. The rest is a sliding scale, where there are benefits and disadvantages.

#22

Well, you could implement the run method of an IOApp and pretend you have no impurity at all.

#23

Pretend is the operative word there.

#24

Sure, you could argue about that. But I’m not the one who’s going to be arguing either way :sweat_smile: