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SML has many of those features. Sure, Haskell popularized them, but it doesn't mean that computer scientists began studying these concepts only after Haskell be

SML has many of those features. Sure, Haskell popularized them, but it doesn't mean that computer scientists began studying these concepts only after Haskell became a thing

mrkeen 6y ago
> SML has many of those features So does Java in 2020, but I was writing about: >> it feels really weird that now is fashionable to assert that Haskell === FP When Googling "functional programming", you get back pages of definitions emphasising "pure functions", "no side-effects", "mathematical functions", "avoiding shared state", "referential transparency". So what Haskell provides is what the blogosphere has been labeling as "functional programming" for a decade. Those definitions could be wrong, but they're the definitions that are floating around out there.