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Discussion on: New pure functional programming language - ETA

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Max Cerrina

I am 100% just piggybacking on this because I was wondering about it earlier. What is it about functional languages that give the impression of being harder, do you think? I wonder how much of it is exposure to OOP first and most often, too. Is it conceptual, syntactical?

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Ben Halpern

This great talk by Elm creator Evan Czaplicki touches on this stuff really well.