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Re:Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video] by ben509 on Thursday October 17, 2019 @07:40AM (#21280945)
Was it a mistake, though? Languages have to be accessible to their audience, and Javascript caught on because of its relatively gentle learning curve.

If SchemeScript hadn't caught on, it might have been that VBScript took over the web.

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Re:Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video] by hyperpallium on Thursday October 17, 2019 @08:01AM (#21281082)
Insufficiently C-like languages get ignored, according to: http://james-iry.blogspot.com/2009/05/brief-incomplete-and-m...
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Re:Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video] by doboyy on Thursday October 17, 2019 @01:57PM (#21284657)
Language designers and enthusiats will forever be disappointed at how many social and human factors are at play, which coincidentally, is a large part of the motivation for programming languages
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