To be fair, the term "functional reactive" was invented by Conal Elliott and Paul Hudak back in '97 [0] and has merely been co-opted recently by the "reactive"

To be fair, the term "functional reactive" was invented by Conal Elliott and Paul Hudak back in '97 [0] and has merely been co-opted recently by the "reactive" buzz. Which is a shame since genuine FRP is quite a bit nicer than most modern bits and pieces still. [0] http://conal.net/papers/icfp97/ http://conal.net/papers/icfp97/