What is something you wish you knew when you first started functional programming? This question was originally answered on Quora by Tikhon Jelvis.

Suppose you are to build a software application for a startup from scratch, would functional programming be a better choice than imperative programming?

Functional programming languages will have a place in general application development when we can read their code at a glance.

Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer ...

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Paul Chiusano and Rúnar Bjarnason's Functional Programming in Scala "is not a book about Scala," say the authors, rather it is a principled introduction to functional programming that relies on ...

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What are the best languages for getting into functional programming? This question was originally answered on Quora.

Functional programming addresses the concurrency problem of state but often at a cost of human readability. Functional programmming may be entirely appropriate for many circumstances.