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My pleasure :) Even though I'm fully bought into the functional and immutable idea (I have a couple of fairly popular libraries bringing the functional world to C# [1][2]), I still like to watch this video from time to time.

The clarity of thought and the way he communicates the ideas is really impressive. Especially the notion of immutable structures being about managing time, and that's why the original blog is wrong. What he seems to totally miss is the fact that with immutable structures you can keep the old world and the new world: not collided and collided. And then step back in time to the not collided state. It gets far too bogged down on implementation attempts and doesn't think about the problem conceptually.

[1] https://github.com/louthy/language-ext

[2] https://github.com/louthy/csharp-monad




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