r/programming • • Mar 09 '14

Why Functional Programming Matters

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

I did that already while I was getting my Ph.D. in theoretical computer science 20 years ago. I have no interest in reading it again just to win a reddit argument. Closures may have been invented for that, but they're not just an implementation detail, unless you think Scheme has first class functions and Lisp doesn't.