We need more pragmatic people (and less academic) in the programming language scene.
Some of the people I see remind me of a doctor that forces you to learn all about the chemical composition of a pill and its history before he lets you take the pill.
You want the damn pain gone. He insists oh the formula is beautiful you wont believe it you have to see it first.
This is what people do in FP.
You want to promote FP? Make a functional programming language that "industrial" programmers who glue UI to database fields use to get shit done fast and see what happens.
But oh no first everyone must masturbate to your beautiful monads and get their FP permit.
Some of the people I see remind me of a doctor that forces you to learn all about the chemical composition of a pill and its history before he lets you take the pill.
You want the damn pain gone. He insists oh the formula is beautiful you wont believe it you have to see it first.
This is what people do in FP.
You want to promote FP? Make a functional programming language that "industrial" programmers who glue UI to database fields use to get shit done fast and see what happens.
But oh no first everyone must masturbate to your beautiful monads and get their FP permit.
FP needs a PHP.