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I was recently accused of being against functional programming because I call utility classes an anti-pattern. That’s absolutely wrong! Well, I do consider them a terrible anti-pattern, but they have nothing to do with functional programming. I believe there are two basic reasons why. First, functional programming is declarative, while utility class methods are imperative. […]