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Raphael_Amiard on June 2, 2009 | parent | context | favorite | on: Arguments in favor of pure functional programming

>FP advocates are mindbogglingly ignorant of people and programming in the real

I think i agree with you on some points, but this just sounds like mindless generalisation.

Not all fp advocates are like this, if it were so, we wouldn't see so much real world solutions to the use of fp in non academical languages

anamax on June 2, 2009 [–]

> Not all fp advocates are like this, if it were so, we wouldn't see so much real world solutions to the use of fp in non academical languages

There is the possibility that FP gets wins despite the actions of FP advocates.

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