One of the weirdest misconceptions we industry folks have about academia is the idea that all academic PL is functional programming.
A lot of what I see is an anti-FP backlash, to be honest. (Golang is the culmination of that.) But I’m probably in a bubble, not representative of the larger industry.
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I think there's both some backlash to extreme claims for FP, but also the influence of FP is pretty obvious: witness modern JS or Java 8 or Rust.
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I was surprised how much of
@rustlang's core comes from functional languages: variant types, closures, type classes (traits), type inference, ifs-as-expressions, function-bodies-as-expressions, etc. - 1 more reply
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I'm not sure if we can generalize about which is more prevalent but I'd say this: FP is the one thing causing a decent amount of contention, more than anything else. You could say it's even causing a SPLASH (based on the OO in the 90s ref)
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