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Re:Why I Prefer Functional Programming by discreteevent on Saturday October 31, 2020 @07:47PM (#24956208)
Backus: Well, because the fundamental paradigm did not include a way of dealing with real time. It was a way of saying how to transform this thing into that thing, but there was no element of time involved, and that was where it got hung up.

Booch: That’s a problem you wrestled with for literally years.

Backus: Yeah, and unsuccessfully.

http://archive.computerhistory.org/resources/access/text/201...

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Re:Why I Prefer Functional Programming by carapace on Monday November 02, 2020 @05:25AM (#24966477)
Very interesting, cheers!

Functional Reactive Programming seems promising. (Elm ditched it in favor of some simpler metaphor on didactic rather than technical grounds, I think.)

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