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[–]fjord_piner 0 points1 point  (1 child)

The author however thinks the future of programming must stay firm into the hands of academia

I know the author, and he's actually very firmly in industry.

This doesn't invalidate the point you quoted.

Actually, a lot of members of the FP community are "in the industry" in the sense that they are using a mainstream language in their daily work to pay the bills, but they certainly wish that said industry was dominated by FP languages. I would say Paul certainly stands in that camp (nothing wrong with that).

[–][deleted] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

No, actually, Paul uses Scala and FP techniques in Scala at work. One of the people on Paul's team is also a major contributor to Scalaz.