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Re:The beauty of functional languages in deep learning – Clo... by UK-Al05 on Thursday September 12, 2019 @08:19AM (#20950568)
I would read the john backus turing award lecture to see why people have such appreciation of functional programming.

In short it's makes it easy to compose things, using a simple core language.

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Re:The beauty of functional languages in deep learning – Clo... by dunefox on Thursday September 12, 2019 @12:26PM (#20953380)
IIRC is talking about function programming in the sense of J, not about functional programming in the sense of Haskell.
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