It's both. You can defer side effects, and avoid state in most other languages; ...

		theCodeStig on Aug 16, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why is learning functional programming so damned h... It's both. You can defer side effects, and avoid state in most other languages; but it's not enforced, or encouraged; and might even be tedious. The difference with functional languages, is that they encourage or enforce deference of side effects, and avoidance of state.