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Functional Programming: Are We There Yet?

Erik Aker and Mike Mull Season 4 Episode 90

To celebrate the 50th anniversary of Scheme, we decided to talk about functional programming: what it is, how's it going these days, and does it still matter in the era of AI.  Although there's been 70 years of research into FP it still hasn't become mainstream.  Will AI reverse or accelerate that trend?

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