Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard Feldman
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Platform access, timing, popular applications and network effects help explain language adoption. Functional techniques can spread even when functional languages do not.
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they had a killer app another is they had some form of platform exclusivityI don't want to learn that because if I invest in itno language features are required to program this style like you can almostclassifying languages as functional or not is kind of arbitrary definitely very fuzzyof platform exclusivity another is theymutation and side effects I'm claiming