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By and large, the party line on HN is that everybody does (or should be doing) functional programming and / or lisp.

• jsmith0295 10y ago
  Which really does not reflect reality at all. Outside of research/education, and stuff hobbyists are doing, FP typically isn't typically used alone. Some ideas are just borrowed from it and sprinkled onto OO languages to make things a bit nicer. FP has a lot of good ideas, but that doesn't make it reasonable to assume that it's all you need to know, or even the most important thing for you to know.
  • GFK_of_xmaspast 10y ago
    I didn't say it was an accurate reflection of reality.
    • jsmith0295 10y ago
      I didn't think you did, was just commenting on what you'd mentioned.