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What happened to all of the excitement about functional programming?

• zerr 13y ago
  My excitement lasted several years. I think it was enough :)
  • pestaa 13y ago
    Sounds like you are now back to imperative/OOP. If that is so, why?
    • zerr 13y ago
      Because of my excitement I almost jumped into academia, for PL research. Then, I realized that I have a family to feed :) and after all, I never really wanted to become a teacher/professor. As for the "real world" side - I'm in the domain where C++ is still the best tool - good enough high-level constructs (but could be better, of course, we're slowly moving toward it) along with low-level stuff and determinism.