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Re:Why are there no big applications written using functiona... by bruceboughton on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @08:26AM (#1147915)
The original article is down for me but:

map/reduce is a functional concept. Google use map/reduce. Google is one of the most used, if not biggest applications, on the planet.

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Re:Why are there no big applications written using functiona... by fierarul on Wednesday February 24, 2010 @09:10AM (#1148002)
Yes, but which great medium sized function app could we point people to ?

So, on one side of the spectrum you have functional factorial and then towards the middle you have Emacs, and on the other side you have (arguably) Google with map-reduce.

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