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i find functional programing to be difficult. any advice for making it simpler?

Yes. Remove any preconceived notions you have about programming and work from there. Functional programming is not arbitrarily more difficult (or even all that different) from imperative programming when you know how to think about it. It's kind of like grasping a new tool, you learn how to maneuver the tool to use it most effectively (or effectfully? pun intended.)

I also suggest you use a programming language that was designed with functional programming in mind. So, put down the Java, put down the C#, put down the Python. Yes, those languages do have capabilities for certain subsets of functional programming (like lambda expressions), but it does not constrain you in the ways you need to achieve a functional rigor.

I suggest Scheme/Racket for something with imperative capabilities, or Haskell for purely functional programming. Either ones will do well in giving you the ideas of functional programming. But, do not assume that one or the other expresses functional programming in its totality, because it is expansive. There is still so much I am learning about functional programming to this day, especailly about theorem proving, the implications of type systems, and absolutely how expressive things like algebraic effects, implicit modifications, and type theory can be.

Anyways, good luck!

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Practical Extensibility with Object Algebras
http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2012/ecoop2012.pdf
Feature-Oriented Programming with Object Algebras
https://www.cs.utexas.edu/~wcook/Drafts/2012/FOPwOA.pdf
Streams à la carte: Extensible Pipelines with Object Algebras
http://drops.dagstuhl.de/opus/volltexte/2015/5239/pdf/29.pdf
Scrap Your Boilerplate with Object Algebras
https://i.cs.hku.hk/~bruno/papers/oopsla2015.pdf
An Analysis and Discussion of Solutions to the Expression Problem Across Programming Languages
https://cs242.stanford.edu/f17/assets/projects/2017/kjtian-colinwei.pdf
Modular Interpreters with Implicit Context Propagation
https://homepages.cwi.nl/~storm/publications/implicit-ctx.pdf
Type-Safe Modular Parsing
https://i.cs.hku.hk/~bruno/papers/sle17.pdf
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