Functional languages: What they are, where they're going
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I remain curious about the viability of using a functional language base for asynchronous event-driven user-interfaces where there can be many complex interactions between what the user(s) does and underlying objects and data. Does the necessity to "maintain state," provide undo/redo, manage changing collections of objects, shift from mode to mode where the entire UI changes, etc. ... go "against the grain" of "stateless" functional language ? Like to read something about that. thanks, Bill
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