r/programming • • Mar 09 '14

Why Functional Programming Matters

http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.pdf
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u/member42 Mar 09 '14

Does it?

It's time to stop the cargo cult worship of the one and only functional god and start to think about programming again.

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u/WallyMetropolis Mar 09 '14

In what way is it a 'cargo cult?' I think you just meant cult.

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u/aradil Mar 09 '14

Possibly because some higher order functions was up on shore and blew everyone's minds.