Today I would like to talk about pure functions and how they help to write better and maintainable code. I tried myself as an experiment and it resulted in mind change, for good of course, applicable to any programming language you use even though the term is more common in the functional programming (FP) community. This is not a new conclusion you might say, but for me it was. There are lots of new ideas coming everyday, lots from FP actually which is trendy ATM, but still you need to convince yourself something is good for you, you need to try it and see if you should move from evaluate to adopt in your tool set. That’s what I did and here are the results. Continue reading