How to pronounce “functional programming” in English

Functional programming is necessary if your goal is algebra, but it is not sufficient.

Functional programming took about 80 years to catch on from the first ideas were mentioned.

You also need a curriculum that uses functional programming, because the curriculum is critical if you want to teach the process for performing those tasks.

For some of you who are doing functional programming, these concepts will be familiar.

Of course, once functional programming became better understood-- most of APL predates really an understanding of what functional programming was.

So, APL was instrumental in discovering functional programming.

Unfortunately, we started using that terminology before monads were invented in functional programming.

Now, the original title of this talk was Pragmatic Functional Programming.

And of course, the focus in the rest of the community on functional programming, and the need to take use of parallel hardware, which

But what I want to get back to is this idea that the takeaway should not be, functional programming is awesome, right?