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0 pointsdagw11y ago0 comments

It seems to me that FP is having quite a renaissance recently

It seems that FP is always having a renaissance. I distinctly recall lots of people (including me) talking in 2001-2002 about the big FP renaissance just round corner. I also recall a few old school lisper rolling their eyes at us and saying that they where saying the same thing back in the early-mid 80's.

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shriramkmurthi11y ago

Doesn't mean it's not true. There is now hard-core industrial use growing, which has never quite been true in the past two decades. Not to mention, mainstream languages have mostly all now accepted the starting premise of FP (closures as first-class values). That's the first step; there are many more to come.

Old Lispers' eyes are stuck in a permanent roll position, like the Agena-Gemini 8 dock.

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