Functional Programming Is Not Popular Because It Is Weird

Re:Functional Programming Is Not Popular Because It Is Weird by SeanDav on Saturday February 27, 2016 @06:03PM (#11188899)

And yet the software industry survives and thrives with only niche use of functional programming at best...

EDIT: To clarify. I am agreeing with the original author. If Functional Programming is as great as it is supposed to be it would have been eating everyone's lunch by now. It has been around forever, yet it remains quite niche. This indicates strongly that there must be underlying reasons it is not more popular.

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Re:Functional Programming Is Not Popular Because It Is Weird by dasil003 on Saturday February 27, 2016 @06:06PM (#11188916)

How is that a rebuttal? I feel some unspoken axe to grind...

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Re:Functional Programming Is Not Popular Because It Is Weird by Ericson2314 on Saturday February 27, 2016 @06:08PM (#11188921)

So what? Perhaps it would thrive even more if. Your argument does however explain why there is little pressure industry-wide to switch.

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