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Productivity. Functional programming is like ancient Latin to many programmers. The pool of people with prior experience that you can hire from is smaller and t
by bcassedy 9y ago
Productivity. Functional programming is like ancient Latin to many programmers. The pool of people with prior experience that you can hire from is smaller and the learning curve for a new hire is going to be greater.
- flavio81 9y agoBut the ones who learn, will become better programmers. Functional programming has already been proven out in the field, since the late '60s. In fact, there is a recent trend to more use of functional programming, just as in the 90s, OOP was all the rage. What is hard, is to use a purely functional language.