One of the weirdest misconceptions we industry folks have about academia is the idea that all academic PL is functional programming.
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The proportion will vary depending on how you count things, but there's no way you could get a majority for FP, or even that close.
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It is even a bit of a running joke that much of PL considers ICFP, the FP-focused and my personal favorite of the PL conferences, to be the unranked one of PLDI/POPL/OOPSLA. cchttps://twitter.com/ShriramKMurthi/status/1014354652203274240 …
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From my sample size of 1, Python seems to be the tool of choice. It supports a functional style to a limited degree, but most people's code I saw did not embrace a functional style.
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