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A comment on It's Time to Get Good at Functional Programming .

Re:It's Time to Get Good at Functional Programming by markessien on Sunday December 07, 2008 @06:25PM (#389251)
I would be really suprised if functional programming caught on. Most programmers don't start in college, they start in high school. And high school people don't have the patience for functional.
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Re:It's Time to Get Good at Functional Programming by inimino on Sunday December 07, 2008 @07:23PM (#389298)
And most professional programmers don't continue to program at the high school level -- or so we'd like to believe.
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