Re: Functional Programming needs some real world use cases

From	Scott Sauyet <scott@sauyet.com>
Newsgroups	comp.lang.javascript
Subject	Re: Functional Programming needs some real world use cases
Date	2017-01-20 05:02 +0000
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Stefan Ram wrote:

>     Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A
>     Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs - John Backus (1978-08)
> 
>   And IIRC, this is the work that usually is said to have triggered the
>   interest in functional programming.

It may have accelerated interest.  But LISP, which is mostly used as a 
functional language, had already been around two decades by the time 
Backus published this pager.

  -- Scott

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  Re: Functional Programming needs some real world use cases Ben Bacarisse <ben.usenet@bsb.me.uk> - 2017-01-19 20:10 +0000
    Re: Functional Programming needs some real world use cases Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn <PointedEars@web.de> - 2017-01-19 21:16 +0100
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    Re: Functional Programming needs some real world use cases justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2017-01-19 12:34 -0800
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  Re: Functional Programming needs some real world use cases Scott Sauyet <scott@sauyet.com> - 2017-01-20 04:28 +0000
    Re: Functional Programming needs some real world use cases justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2017-01-19 21:18 -0800
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