Re:2017 Top Programming Languages
by throwaway7645 on Friday July 21, 2017 @09:54AM
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Yea because almost all databases use SQL, and zillions of businesses use databases. FP is only a tiny subset of industry coding, but popular in academia and high profile companies.
Re:2017 Top Programming Languages
by Double_a_92 on Monday July 24, 2017 @02:51AM
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Because research teams at huge tech companies totally represent the "real life" of normal companies.
Re:2017 Top Programming Languages
by threepipeproblm on Monday July 24, 2017 @10:40AM
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There are by far more small companies using Haskell & FP than large ones. I mentioned large companies because they are recognizable. So what is your point?
In the bigger picture functional programming has made huge inroads. Facebook has a Haskell team whose product handles up to 1 million requests per second, and it's also in production at AT&T, Microsoft, Google, Barclays, New York Times and many smaller outfits. The other day I read about a Haskell-like language being used for high-speed, low-latency trading for a hedge fund.
But there are probably at least 100x more SQL developers out there.