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The Benefits of Functional Programming

Understand how functional programming reduces cognitive load by using pure functions and minimizing working memory usage. Learn how this approach in PHP simplifies code evaluation, improves testing, and enables easy parallelization for efficient and maintainable applications.

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Cognitive load-reducing ability

Functional programming reduces the cognitive burden of writing code. Composing pure functions limits the mental effort required to perform tasks.

The human brain has a variable, but small number of shared memory resources for discrete working that we refer ...