Why Functional Programming Matters • John Hughes • YOW! 2017

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[@devagr]

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[@teial]

Fantastic talk! Get right to the heart of the question of why we need FP.

[@KennethBoneth]

Interesting to look at the development times in the table at 33:19 as well. Lisp having a 3 hour development time. and only 12 lines of documentation. Whereas haskell had 465 lines of documentation.

[@ericpmoss]

It would be fun to see the implementations and see what could be improved with each. It has been a decade since I read the paper, but IIRC, the Lisp team finished first and the code worked, with many of the other attempts not working error-free. That would leave 5 hours at least to work on the algorithm.

[@Nellak2011]

Beautiful ❤

[@amonowyful]

Awesome talk, thanks! For anyone interested in Backus paper but too rookie to read it, check Eric Normands podcast about it where he reads parts of it and adds explanation