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Erik Meijer has — for sometime now — advocated treating Javascript as a target language. This fact would be unremarkable except that a few years ago he advocat

Erik Meijer has — for sometime now — advocated treating Javascript as a target language. This fact would be unremarkable except that a few years ago he advocated bringing functional programming to the .NET platform and we ended up with LINQ.

nrb 14y ago
LINQ was never an attempt at functional programming; it's an exercise in querying collections in a type-safe manner. Perhaps you were thinking of F#?
- pjmlp 14y ago
  Maybe you should read this, research.microsoft.com/~emeijer/papers/es012-meijer.pdf LINQ is based in Monads.