What is a Pure Function?

Christopher Jeffery
4 min readMar 9, 2022

Predictable and simple for a life of zen

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The term pure function usually pops up in conversations about functional programming. This is because it’s a pillar in the functional programming paradigm.

However, pure functions can exist in any programming paradigm. And they are pretty important as they maintain simplicity by keeping the code predictable.

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