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In real live people dont care about functional programming...
I believe that in your real life, they don't. In the bigger picture functional programming has made huge inroads. Facebook has a Haskell team whose product handles up to 1 million requests per second, and it's also in production at AT&T, Microsoft, Google, Barclays, New York Times and many smaller outfits. The other day I read about a Haskell-like language being used for high-speed, low-latency trading for a hedge fu…
Because research teams at huge tech companies totally represent the "real life" of normal companies.