John Hughes - Why Functional Programming Matters

Given at Functional Conf 2016 in Bangalore, India. The paper he refers to is this one, published in The Computer Journal, 32(2):98–107, April 1989: Why Functional Programming Matters. John Backus' 1977 Turing Award lecture Can Programming Be Liberated from the von Neumann Style? A Functional Style and Its Algebra of Programs is here: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/359576.359579

See also David Turner Talking About Sixty Years of Functional Programming History.

At 29:10 on the 1994 paper by Paul Hudak and Mark Jones, ... see BBC Report on Black Sea Incident in 2022. His thoughts on specifications at 50:33 are interesting, see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Program_synthesis, as is his answer to the question about types in Erlang at 53:42. Total functional programming and program synthesis have a lot to do with each other, ... See this post of mine:

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