Historically, absolutely not. I’m not sure if that has changed lately with how popular FP has gotten, though.
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Replying to @pcwalton @noop_noob
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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Lars Bergstrom Retweeted ShriramKrishnamurthi
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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Replying to @johnregehr @larsberg_ and
@michael_w_hicks told me ICFP is now the most heavily-attended SIGPLAN conf, but still w/ the lowest number of submissions. My uninformed take: bandwagoning by the industry attracted to FP plus very high quality submissions w/ a self-selecting audience (i.e., should higher imo)1 reply 0 retweets 3 likes -
Replying to @krismicinski @johnregehr and
I think bandwagon is the wrong way to think about it. Currently FP is a cutting edge technique that's not widely known and there's a lot of demand for academics translating the ideas for industry. Very similar to OOPSLA & OOP circa 1995.
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Replying to @samth @johnregehr and
yeah, I didn't mean for bandwagon to imply it was necessarily a bad thing. I agree w/ you about this: lots of transition for FP into a variety of industries. I suspect there is both underhype and overhype along various dimensions (based on what I read on HN/Reddit)
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Replying to @krismicinski @samth and
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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Replying to @pcwalton @krismicinski and
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.2 replies 1 retweet 5 likes
It’s almost as if FP geeks had a lot of influence on the design ;)
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