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Functional programming is a programming paradigm that emphasizes immutability and pure functions while avoiding state and mutable data. It focuses on creating new data structures instead of modifying existing ones, making programs more predictable and easier to reason about. This approach encourages a declarative coding style, using functions like map or reduce for data transformation.

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Data Mutable DeepSeek

Functional programming is a programming paradigm that emphasizes immutability and pure functions while avoiding state and mutable data. It focuses on creating new data structures instead of modifying existing ones, making programs more predictable and easier to reason about. This approach encourages a declarative coding style, using functions like map or reduce for data transformation.

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Untitled 23/03/25 14:17

N: The next sentence is a definition of Functional Programming: Functional Programming


is a programming paradigm that avoids state and mutable data. Can you explain this
definition?

Certainly! The definition you provided highlights two key aspects of functional
programming:

1. Programming Paradigm: Functional programming is a style or approach to writing


software, just like object-oriented programming or procedural programming. It
emphasizes a specific way of thinking about and structuring code.

2. Avoids State and Mutable Data:

State: In programming, "state" refers to data that can change over time. For
example, a variable that holds different values at different points in a program
represents state.
Mutable Data: This refers to data that can be modified after it is created. For
instance, changing the value of a variable or updating an array is mutating data.

Functional programming avoids these concepts by focusing on immutability and pure


functions:

Immutability: Data, once created, cannot be changed. Instead of modifying existing


data, you create new data structures with the desired changes.
Pure Functions: These are functions that always produce the same output for the
same input and have no side effects (e.g., they don’t modify external state or
mutable data).

By avoiding state and mutable data, functional programming aims to make programs
more predictable, easier to reason about, and less prone to bugs caused by unexpected
changes in state. It encourages a declarative style of coding, where you describe what
you want to achieve rather than how to achieve it step-by-step.

For example, in functional programming, you might use functions like map or reduce
to transform data without modifying the original data structure, rather than using loops
to mutate variables.

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