Functional-Programming

Update December 2015: This project has now ended and the floppy era is over - for me at least. The project has been featured quite a bit in the press and blogosphere. Most notably: BBC World Service (14min12sek in) CBC Spark Norwegian National Broadcasting (NRK) Dagbladet (national newspaper) While mass production of the venerable floppy disk stopped about 2010, some are still needed for applications designed in the nineties. It is actually possible to work with floppy disks on an almost daily basis at work, in 2015. In fact, I do. ...

Functional Programming, as a paradigm, does not have users, it has devotees. I am myself one of those, spending time in Haskell as often as I can. Why then, if it is so great, has FP not taken over the software development world? There are many answers to this question, ranging from the condescending (“is hard”, “has no practical use”) to the hopeful (“just haven’t reached critical mass”). This post is about another, often overlooked, fundamental reason: ...