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What is your opinion on purely functional programming? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.

Functional programming experts Simon Thompson and John Hughes discuss functional programming in today’s computing environments, particularly through the use of the Erlang and Haskell languages. In ...

Answer by Keith Adams, Computer programmer at Facebook, on Quora, If you're doing it for the purpose of learning, get thee to Haskell. It takes the paradigm to its logical conclusion. I found Haskell ...

Functional programming languages are (in my experience - thus far Scheme and Lisp) allergic to bit-level twiddling. For example, writing a program that returns the SHA-1 cryptographically secure ...