I agree that functional programming and web applications fit nicely together. response = f(request) probably won't mean much to someone who has no familiarity w

I agree that functional programming and web applications fit nicely together. response = f(request) probably won't mean much to someone who has no familiarity with fp, though. http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch_style.htm#sec_5_1_3 http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/rest_arch... is a key section of a very readable explanation of web architecture. I think it could serve as a very practical, if unconventional, demonstration of the usefulness of referential transparency.