“The methodological benefits of functional languages are well known [Bac78, Hug89, HJ94], but still the vast majority of programs are written in imperative languages such as C. This apparent contradiction is easily explained by the fact that functional languages have… — Chris Okasaki Copy Share Image
“Joe Armstrong: I think the lack of reusablility comes in object-oriented languages, not in functional languages. Because the problem with object-oriented languages is they've got all this implicit environment that they carry around with them. You wanted a banana but… — Peter Seibel Copy Share Image
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