The Next Big Thing
George V. Neville-Neil · Queue · 2007
Dear KV, I know you did a previous article where you listed some books to read. I would also consider adding How to Design Programs, available free on the Web. This book is great for explaining the process of writing a program. It uses the Scheme language and introduces FP. I think FP could be the future of programming. John Backus of the IBM Research Laboratory suggested this in 1977. Even Microsoft has yielded to FP by introducing FP concepts in C# with LINQ. Do you feel FP has a future in software development, or are we stuck with our current model of languages with increasing features?