If Functional Programming Is SoGreat, Why Isn't Everyone Using It?
Mario Meili · 2017
Functional programming has been considered to be an answer to many of the problems faced by software engineering today, especially in academic circles. Nevertheless, the large-scale adoption of functional programming in the mainstream of industry has been sluggish. Although there are a lot of different opinions about the underlying problem to this issue, it is hard to find literature that elaborates on the topic. This report presents the results of a meta-study conducted on multiple aspects of the functional programming paradigm and its representing languages. It does so by identifying key issues responsible for the weak adoption of functional program- ming, and, more importantly, by proposing and evaluating measures that should positively influence the usage of functional programming languages in industrial, commercial and practical settings.