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title: "How do functional programming languages handle state and side effects?"  
description: "How do functional programming languages handle state and side effects?"  
author: "Meet Patel"  
published: 2025-01-17  
updated: 2025-01-17  
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category: "programming language"  
tags: ["programming language"]  

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# How do functional programming languages handle state and side effects?


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