Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
Functional progrmming doesn't need a cheerleader. It needs a problem to which it is an actual solution.
It seems Erlang was the right choice for Ericsson's phone switches. And for jabberd. I think Lisp was the right choice for emacs. And as the number of cores grow in our cpu's I think we will find many more problems to which functional programming is an actual solution. Can you do hot swapping of code in any non-functional language? The paralellism just seems to fall out nicely when using a side-effect free language as well.
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