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Re:It's Time to Get Good at Functional Programming by eb on Sunday December 07, 2008 @06:26PM (#389254)
Absolutely. Slava Pestov on the matter:

"I'm usually a strong proponent of the rule of law, innocent until proven guilty, and so on, but I strongly believe that anybody who writes an article about functional programming where the only example given is 'factorial' (or 'fibonacci' for that matter) should be summarily executed, no exceptions."

http://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/7h7e5/its_time_...

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Re:It's Time to Get Good at Functional Programming by flashgordon on Monday December 08, 2008 @05:44PM (#390517)
i know.. at the very least i was hoping to see lots of stats on things like adoptions by companies or heavy usage in critical projects with high visibility... all i got was factorial!!
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