By bloid
via brandonwerner.com
Published: Jan 14 2008 / 10:30
Over at Lambda The Ultimate, the best academic programming blog on earth, there is a large debate going on regarding what the future of languages will be for 2008. The most important thing to emerge from the discussion is the larger role of functional programming will play. It seems like a safe bet. This year has seen the explosion of interest and creation of functional languages such as Apple OS X’s Nu, Java’s JVM using Scala and Microsoft Research’s .Net language F#.
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dzonelurker replied ago:
There is no rise of pure functional languages. What we see are hybrid languages that blend a little 'functional' into their syntax mix but abandon core elements of pure functional languages, eg. data only as immutable values.
Ricky Clarkson replied ago:
You seem to be mixing up pure functional with functional. The author mentions the word 'pure' three times, twice unrelated to functional programming, and once mentions Scheme as a pure functional language, which, thanks to set!, it is not. I don't think he knows the meaning of 'pure functional', and I don't think he was talking about that.
There is a rise of functional programming more than (pure) functional languages.
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