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Why isn't functional programming more popular in the industry? Does it catch on now? [closed]
During my four years at university we have been using much functional programming in several functional programming languages. But I have also used much object oriented programming to, and in fact I ...
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For what common problems is functional programming not a good fit?
Functional programming is a declarative paradigm. One of the strenghts with FP is that side-effects are avoided. It's said that for some problems FP isn't a good fit.
For what common problems isn't ...
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Why the current enthusiasm for Functional Programming? [closed]
I've been hearing a lot of enthusiasm about functional programming languages lately, with regards to Scala, Clojure, and F#. I've recently started studying Haskell, to learn the FP paradigm.
I love ...
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Haskell AND Lisp vs. Haskell OR Lisp
I currently code with C, C++, and Python. I'm wanting to pick up a functional programming language, and right now I'm leaning toward Haskell. I do NOT want to start a "Haskell vs Lisp" war here; what ...
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Why is an anemic domain model considered bad in C#/OOP, but very important in F#/FP?
In a blog post on F# for fun and profit, it says:
In a functional design, it is very important to separate behavior from
data. The data types are simple and "dumb". And then separately, you
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FP and OO orthogonal?
I have heard this time and again and I am trying to understand and validate the idea that FP and OO are orthogonal.
First of all, what does it mean for 2 concepts to be orthogonal ?
FP encourages ...
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Functional as a first language
What are some pros and cons to learning functional programming before other paradigms?
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Non-OOP languages advantages and good uses
I'm a C# developer, but I also know Java, JavaScript, XSLT, a little of C and Perl, e some other that I may have forgotten. Still, the paradigm I'm most familiar to is OOP.
I have always thought ...
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Introducing functional programming constructs in non-functional programming languages
This question has been going through my mind quite a lot lately and since I haven't found a convincing answer to it I would like to know if other users
of this site have thought about it as well.
In ...
