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But at least it keeps grad students busy in the programming language departments ;). Imagine that all we had was Haskell and maybe a strict variant of it. These

But at least it keeps grad students busy in the programming language departments ;). Imagine that all we had was Haskell and maybe a strict variant of it. These guys would quickly run out of topics that could be explained in less then 5min to a casual developer.

jolux 5y ago
I’m not denying that there are a lot of difficult concepts and million dollar words in advanced functional programming but I will say that I personally took years to understand what was going on with OOP when I was learning programming. Functions made sense, classes and objects and inheritance and subtype polymorphism did not.
- bfrog 5y ago
  Pure functions are incredibly simple thing to understand, much like an algebraic equation you provide inputs and get an output. There's a lot to love and learn from functional programming.
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