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Back to EpisodesFunctional Programming: Are We There Yet?
Season 4
Episode 90
Published 6 months ago
Description
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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