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manigandham on April 9, 2021 | parent | context | favorite | on: Idempotence now prevents pain later

This is basically like going from imperative to declarative.

Describe the final end/desired state and let the machine figure out how to get there, progressing through the work until it's caught up even across restarts or other boundaries.

snidane on April 9, 2021 [–]

The outcome is the same. Except that it is not declarative, because 'you' are the machine who codes up that logic.

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