The Flying Frog Blog: Disadvantages of purely functional programming

I have been asked to elaborate on my answer on Quora so here goes: 1. There is no efficient purely functional unsorted dictionary or set Since the 1990s the use of dictionaries in software has gone through the roof. Dictionaries are now a stock collection type that every programmer expects to find in their standard library. Purely functional or persistent data structures such as those found

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