Very thought-provoking article. Loved it. I think there are a couple of positive side effects to our functional programming fascination in preparation for a more parallel future (that may come much later than we thought).
1) Emerging languages tend to be safer, statically typed, and although not functional, they generously borrow from their functional siblings.
2) They tend to have more focus on performance. We didn't go from Python/Ruby to an even higher level and slower family of languages.
Very thought-provoking article. Loved it. I think there are a couple of positive side effects to our functional programming fascination in preparation for a more parallel future (that may come much later than we thought).
1) Emerging languages tend to be safer, statically typed, and although not functional, they generously borrow from their functional siblings.
2) They tend to have more focus on performance. We didn't go from Python/Ruby to an even higher level and slower family of languages.