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seclorum | karma 511 | avg karma 1.31 · 2011-07-25 10:05:55+00:00

The point is not: how. The point is: why.

Peaker | karma 3101 | avg karma 2.05 · 2011-07-25 13:12:48+00:00

There are plenty of resources on why you would want to program functionally.

One of the most notable one is:

http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~shmat/courses/cs345/whyfp.pdf

Benefits include: Easier reasoning about code correctness. More powerful abstractions leading to clearer and more succint code. Easier mechanical refactoring of code. Easier parallelism. More powerful compiler optimizations.

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seclorum | karma 511 | avg karma 1.31 · 2011-08-03 07:13:57+00:00

Great, now answer: why not.

eru | karma 30335 | avg karma 1.29 · 2011-07-25 09:55:26

Depends on what you are looking for.

Apart from any benefit from actually using any language or tool, there's also the joy of learning.

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