>I get it that academia has been programming functionally for quite a long time. Academia do many things that seem weird at the moment but later may become frui

>I get it that academia has been programming functionally for quite a long time. Academia do many things that seem weird at the moment but later may become fruitful in practical settings. On the hand isn't this obvious? If their job is to push the world ahead, then some of them will actually succeed at it