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		jghn 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Evolving Scala It is also important to keep in mind that there are two very different styles of FP one sees with Scala. Odersky et al envisioned ML on the JVM. And there is also a strong population of Haskell style FP.

the_af 11 months ago [–]

Yes. I remember Erik Meijer was frustrated back then [1], and advocated going all-in FP, but I don't think that was ever the norm for most developers.

[1] "`Mostly Functional` Programming Doesn't Work" https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=2611829

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