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

Functional programming languages will have a place in general application development when we can read their code at a glance.

Even though functional programming has been around for over half a century, it has never gained the kind of popularity anywhere near what imperative programming (e.g. C, Java) achieved.

Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer ...

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.

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Pure functional programming language implementations have no side effects and essentially use immutable, single assignments. That is, you can set X to 1 but once it is set it cannot be changed.

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.