Functional programming finally goes mainstream

[Kent Sharkey]

ZDNet[^]:

Forrester breaks down functional programming and why tech developers should care about it.

And by "mainstream" they mean, "we just heard about it"

[David ONeil]

Quote:

The customer-facing software development world is outgrowing stateful, object-oriented (OO) development.

Sounds like BS.

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[Kent Sharkey]

Not just BS, it's Forrester BS(tm)! ;P

TTFN - Kent

[Bernhard Hiller]

"A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?" With most programmers not having understood the object-oriented paradigma despite believing to use it since decades, we can be sure that we will soon have new beautiful functional stuff for the Weird & Wonderful.

Oh sanctissimi Wilhelmus, Theodorus, et Fredericus!

[Marc Clifton]

We should have a contest to see which ZDNet author can use the most number of words to say absolutely nothing useful.

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