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Comment by Tiago Sousa on "Why functional programming languages like Elixir are not as famous as Ruby, Python, Node etc?" | Hashnode

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Tiago Sousa

Wev Developer

Feb 3, 2016

Because believe it or not, this is a valid function in Haskell: Weird Haskell fuction

Function languages are awesome but the problem is that they are very different from OOP languages, and people have a hard time going from a language like C, Ruby or Python to a functional one.

Maz Jaleel

iOS/OSX and Game Development

Feb 3, 2016

That's very true, and relates to my point being .. it's what we are taught in the beginning. We have to make the transition from OOP to functional, not the other way around.

Tiago Sousa

Wev Developer

Feb 3, 2016

Functional prog. deals a lot with abstraction recursion etc... so I guess you don't have to move to functional programming, there are cases that OOP is better there are others that FP is better. The ideal thing would be a languages that is in the middle of OOP and PF until we get there I guess that all depends on the project.

Have a look at this video where Simon Peyton talks about functional programming and Haskell on specific. youtube.com/watch

Nicolas Ha

Feb 5, 2016

Now I'm curious about this haskell thing.. Do you have a source ?

Indu Pillai

Oct 3, 2017

I also want to see this haskell example. :)