I used to attend the Bay Area Functional Programmers meetings (apparently now defunct). At one point, I mentioned that I was having a hard time applying FP to my work, which requires lots of iterative updates to vectors that represent states in physical systems.
The general reaction was not that I simply wasn't committed enough to FP. Rather, it was a very thoughtful version of "Yeah I can see where pure FP probably isn't a good fit".
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Happily, my experience was quite different.
I used to attend the Bay Area Functional Programmers meetings (apparently now defunct). At one point, I mentioned that I was having a hard time applying FP to my work, which requires lots of iterative updates to vectors that represent states in physical systems.
The general reaction was not that I simply wasn't committed enough to FP. Rather, it was a very thoughtful version of "Yeah I can see where pure FP probably isn't a good fit".