What is something you wish you knew when you first started functional programming? This question was originally answered on Quora by Tikhon Jelvis.

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Functional programming addresses the concurrency problem of state but often at a cost of human readability. Functional programmming may be entirely appropriate for many circumstances.

What is functional programming? Functional programming is a programming paradigm where programs are constructed by applying and composing functions, emphasising immutability and avoiding side effects.

Even as some argue exactly what it is, functional programming keeps attracting developers. And three of the most popular functional languages — Clojure, F#, and Scala — are on tap for ...

What are the best languages for getting into functional programming? This question was originally answered on Quora.

Professor Simon-Peyton Jones, an advocate of functional programming since the 1980s and a major contributor to the Haskell language, is the first to admit that his tribe is a minority.

Suppose you are to build a software application for a startup from scratch, would functional programming be a better choice than imperative programming?

Odersky: I think functional programming is about to become mainstream. It won't happen overnight, but the trend towards it is hard to miss. Java 8's lambdas were a validation of this trend.