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A good number of the posters here are fans of Paul Graham who is a loud FP advocate. Also I've been here for a number of years and I can never recall seeing an

A good number of the posters here are fans of Paul Graham who is a loud FP advocate. Also I've been here for a number of years and I can never recall seeing anyone bashing FP. (Which is totally fine with me.) Bashing Java and and general OO however is to be expected in any programming related thread here (a little tiring but understandable, I too have seen my share of bad OO code.) Neither of this counts as proof but yes, this site comes off as extremely pro FP for me as well.

KirinDave 8y ago
Paul Graham is not a fan of FP, he's a Lisp advocate. Every Lisper will be quick to tell you their approach is a superset of FP with its own unique meta-syntactic tools. This is a great illustration of my point. If you place every differing viewpoint in one bucket and then take the sum, yeah it's gonna see overwhelming. In actuality, there are lots of factions with interesting viewpoints.
jstimpfle 8y ago
> I can never recall seeing anyone bashing FP Well I'm guilty of that, even on this page ;-)