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Maybe 2017 will be the year of "functional fatigue"? I can only hope I guess ...

• nine_k 10y ago
  Once FP becomes mainstream, and all best parts of the approach are incorporated in the next great approach, then...
  • lotsoflumens 10y ago
    It looks like a tail-recursive process without termination unfortunately ... I think there are some much better ideas surfacing soon.
    • nine_k 10y ago
      A tail-recursive ("looped") process without an explicit termination is a typical server, terminated by killing the process (sorry, the impure outside world is sometimes cruel).
  • white-flame 10y ago
    Unfortunately, "going mainstream" usually seems to involve selecting and running with only the worst parts of any approach. :-P
    • nine_k 10y ago
      Cannot agree. E.g. the best parts of OOP were the ideas of data encapsulation, of modularity, of interfaces separate from implementations. These live on, whether you use method dispatch and inheritance or not.