> in the functional programming community I find an obsession with... what counts as functional programming (and more specifically "why lang X is not really fun

> in the functional programming community I find an obsession with... what counts as functional programming (and more specifically "why lang X is not really functional") It always disappoints me when I read such things; it turns FP into a moving goalpost or a mirage. If you really like FP and want it to be more widely adopted, an approach of encouragement, "steps in the right direction", etc. will do more good than "holier than thou" scorn. I've tried to follow this attitude when e.g. discussing on HN and answering on Stack Overflow; I wrote up some of my longer FP descriptions into a blog post at http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2015-01-18-learning_functional_programming.html http://chriswarbo.net/blog/2015-01-18-learning_functional_pr...