> is software which operates hardware, like steering of the stepper motors of a robot, or the firmware of a washing machine. Functional languages are (rightfull

> is software which operates hardware, like steering of the stepper motors of a robot, or the firmware of a washing machine. Functional languages are (rightfully) immediately dismissed for these kinds of problems Given that there is literally a version of Haskell (https://clash-lang.org/ https://clash-lang.org/) designed for programming FPGAs and ASICs I don't thin the dismissal is rightful. I've used Clash to program FPGAs with computer vision algorithms.