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I believe that in your real life, they don't. In the bigger picture functional programming has made huge inroads. Facebook has a Haskell team whose product ha
by threepipeproblm 9y ago
I believe that in your real life, they don't.
In the bigger picture functional programming has made huge inroads. Facebook has a Haskell team whose product handles up to 1 million requests per second, and it's also in production at AT&T, Microsoft, Google, Barclays, New York Times and many smaller outfits. The other day I read about a Haskell-like language being used for high-speed, low-latency trading for a hedge fund.
But there are probably at least 100x more SQL developers out there.
- throwaway7645 9y agoYea because almost all databases use SQL, and zillions of businesses use databases. FP is only a tiny subset of industry coding, but popular in academia and high profile companies.
- Double_a_92 9y agoBecause research teams at huge tech companies totally represent the "real life" of normal companies.
- threepipeproblm 9y agoThere are by far more small companies using Haskell & FP than large ones. I mentioned large companies because they are recognizable. So what is your point?