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The Evolution of Functional Programming in the Academic World
Functional programming really grew up in the academic world. For decades, it was really just popular in academia. It's really only in the last 20 years that functional programming has matured from the academic world into industry. So we're seeing functional programming kind of influencing mainstream languages while those mainstream languages are not becoming purely functional themselves.