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Re:Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video] by StreamBright on Thursday October 17, 2019 @08:58AM (#21281516)
>> This is true for any company at scale

I do not think this is true outside your domain. Amazon uses Java, C++ and Perl. At the time I was there majority of the website code was in Perl. Amazon one of the biggest companies on the planet.

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Re:Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video] by hyperpallium on Thursday October 17, 2019 @09:33AM (#21281845)
Amazon needed to create AWS to be able to run all that perl performantly (joke).

Actually, a lot of programming language improvements have come from trying to make lisp performant.

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