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Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? – Richard Feldman
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Richard Feldman argues that functional programming is not the norm largely because of historical accidents, such as C++ popularity, platform exclusivity, marketing spend and network effects, rather than merit. He traces the history of how languages become mainstream.
HN treats it as the standard answer to why FP isn't mainstream and why languages succeed.
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