Functional Programming: This thread is like a burrito

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The Something Awful Forums > Discussion > Serious Hardware/Software Crap > The Cavern of COBOL > Functional Programming: This thread is like a burrito

Destroyenator: Dec 27, 2004; Don't ask me lady, I live in beer

There was an interesting talk/paper about that querying/parallelising/caching infrastructure given at ICFP last year: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jG9PWdV1wso

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Destroyenator: Dec 27, 2004; Don't ask me lady, I live in beer

A lot of the appeal is that the core language is based around list manipulation and the core data structures are all list based. The entire AST is not only representable as lists but it's most obvious form is those same list structures, so it makes manipulating it straightforward and more "natural" than in any other language.

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