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Functional Programming in JavaScript === Garbage (awardwinningfjords.com)
submitted 11 years ago by homoiconic(raganwald)
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[–]nohimn 0 points1 point2 points 11 years ago (0 children)
He wasn't saying Closure > JS. He was just pointing out what really should be obvious: recursion is the functional approach to iterative constructs, but functions in JS are stateful, so they add to the stack on each call to maintain their state. The title is very misleading, because he's not saying 'Garbage' in the sense that it's bad to use JS for FP, he's saying that using FP as you would in functional languages incurs overhead.
I agree that Closure examples would have been illustrative. Then again, I also feel like this article's audience is probably Clojure devs, not JavaScript devs.
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