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Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? [video]

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296 points gyre007 | 1 comments | 17 Oct 19 10:10 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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axilmar ◴[17 Oct 19 11:56 UTC] No.21281053[source]▶
Functional programming? absolutely 100% yes.

Functional programming languages? well, it depends on the problem.

If performance is an important issue, most of the time functional programming languages are a big 'no'.

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1. DonaldPShimoda ◴[17 Oct 19 21:12 UTC] No.21286405[source]▶
I mean, Jane Street use OCaml for high-frequency trading, where latency can cost significant amounts of money. They seem to be perfectly happy with it.