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Re:Functional Programming Is Not Popular Because It Is Weird by hcarvalhoalves on Saturday February 27, 2016 @05:32PM (#11188811)
If you learned that "programming is like telling the computer a recipe" I can see how FP looks strange.

It's a bad analogy though.

http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~remzi/Naur.pdf

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Re:Functional Programming Is Not Popular Because It Is Weird by ktRolster on Saturday February 27, 2016 @06:13PM (#11188938)
It's an example of that style of thinking that made Dijkstra write his famous quote,

"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."

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Re:Functional Programming Is Not Popular Because It Is Weird by mavelikara on Saturday February 27, 2016 @06:27PM (#11188980)
Also, Backus' 1977 Turing Award lecture "Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs" (http://worrydream.com/refs/Backus-CanProgrammingBeLiberated....) would be a good read.
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