On Fri, Apr 09, 2021 at 11:07:35AM -0700, Dhaval Giani via talk wrote:
Ha, and many programmers I know these days want the computer to get out of the way, and functional programming gives them a way to do that.
I think there are "niches" for both styles, and as pointed out elsewhere, it does take a paradigm shift to do proper functional programming. I could never achieve that, though I know folks who did, and their code was quite elegant (in functional paradigm). Did make me jealous at times when I had to write lots of procedural code. But, hey, at least I knew exactly what happened and why and how (well, OK most of the time) and functional programming was all magic to me.
https://fsharp.org/testimonials/ has some interesting stories. Seems F# is very useful for implementing data analysis and making the code fast due to the automatic parallelization it can do and the code looks more like the data model than C# code would. And the code tends to be a lot shorter too. F# is based on ML syntax but of course with the ability to easily interact with C# code. -- Len Sorensen