# Beautiful functional programming

**URL:** <https://discourse.haskell.org/t/beautiful-functional-programming/7411>\
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**Created:** [August 25, 2023, 4:08pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/beautiful-functional-programming/7411 "2023-08-25T16:08:36Z")\
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**Author:** ![simonpj](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/discourse.haskell.org/simonpj/32/890_2.png) [@simonpj](https://discourse.haskell.org/u/simonpj)\
**Post date:** [August 26, 2023, 10:40pm UTC](https://discourse.haskell.org/t/beautiful-functional-programming/7411/23 "2023-08-26T22:40:17Z")

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> [@Nycticorax](#):
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> What I am wondering about is what exactly the creator of Elixir said or claimed. Maybe @simonpj can reference the actual words of his statement, so that we understand what he felt was a daunting task for functional languages? Perhaps all this is a storm in a teacup?

Total storm in teacup! Jose is a very interesting, clever, and thoughtful person. I was just jotting down (several weeks later) my probably-inaccurate recollection of a conversation over a beer. The [problem spec](https://github.com/josevalim/nested-map-reduce-traversal) I referred to is the best reference. Stick to that!

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