Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters(This is a snapshot of my old weblog. New posts and selected republished essays can be found at raganwald.com. A reformatted and cleaned up version of this post can be found here.) I recently re-read the amazing paper Why Functional Programming Matters (“WhyFP”). Although I thought that I understood WhyFP when I first read it a few years ago, when I had another look last weekend I suddenly underst
