> Would you say that the functional paradigm has started to gain more traction lately though? I would and I believe it started to happen when people started ta

> Would you say that the functional paradigm has started to gain more traction lately though? I would and I believe it started to happen when people started talking about Scala. I also think something similar happened with OOP in (maybe?) the early 1990s - i.e. we'd had Simula, Smalltalk and so on for years but it became mainstream. I'm thinking of things like Visual Basic 1.0 (1991), C++ v2.0 (1989)