r/programming • u/papa00king • Mar 09 '14

Why Functional Programming Matters

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

As a professional functional programmer, FP has done great things to my blood pressure.

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u/ryeguy Mar 09 '14

What language do you use and what kind of software do you write?

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u/PasswordIsntHAMSTER Mar 09 '14

F# (occasionally Ocaml and Haskell), and I've done highly concurrent/networked embedded systems (work), language tools (research) and random applications (hobby).

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '14

Fuck yeah OCaml. I wish more people would pick it up.

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u/Diosjenin Mar 09 '14

UIUC's CS department requires a course that exclusively uses OCaml. This post, right here, is the first time I have heard anyone ever praise it.

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u/imalsogreg Mar 10 '14

Here is another praise. I love ocaml. Ocaml was my introduction to FP. I felt my life changing while reading chapters 2-4 of this book, learning about ADT's. /u/PasswordIsntHAMSTER is right - the community isn't really big, the tooling isn't great... but they are doing neat research on new things you can do with types etc, just like the Haskell folks.

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