Stop Doing Functional

Stop Doing Functional
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This is a beautiful roast of functional programming zealots who've been pushing their pure, immutable, monad-filled agenda on the rest of us. The meme tears into FP evangelists with surgical precision:

First up: "Instructions weren't supposed to be interpreted in an abstract order" - because nothing says productivity like spending 3 hours mentally unwrapping nested function compositions to figure out what order things actually execute in.

Then the classic: "Years of scripting yet NO REAL-WORLD USE FOUND for PURE FUNCTIONS" - a spicy take that'll make Haskell devs cry into their monads. And the IO jab? Chef's kiss. Functional purists treat side effects like they're radioactive, so they literally had to create a special container just to... print to console.

The "monads" and "endofunctor" line is gold because it perfectly captures FP bros explaining basic concepts using category theory like they're defending a PhD thesis. Just say it's a wrapper, my dude.

But the real kicker? The example code showing incomprehensible Haskell syntax vs what the person actually wants: "Hello I would like fold1 apples please" - because sometimes you just want to sum an array without importing half of category theory.

The punchline hits hard: all those compilers, type systems, and academic rigor... and we still can't understand what the code does without a Rosetta Stone.

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