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Functional Programming

Functional programming is a paradigm that treats computation as the evaluation of pure functions and avoids mutable state. Applying functional techniques in game servers, such as immutable data structures and pure transformation functions for game state, reduces bugs caused by shared mutable state in concurrent code.

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• @article@Functional Programming - Wikipedia
• @article@What is Functional Programming? - IBM
• @article@Functional Programming Concepts in F# - Microsoft