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How did you get started with Functional Programming? (self.functional_programming)
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Hello fellow FP-Lemmyites. I'd love to hear stories about what got you interested in FP originally, and how you learned.

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[–] jrop 2 points 2 years ago

I took a PL class in college, and we used Scheme. Ever since then, I noticed the concepts that I learned in that class seeping into other PLs. At the time I was programming Java 7 and JavaScript (ECMAScript 6). As soon as Java 8 hit, they had their stream API, and around the same time TC39 started adding FP-influenced APIs to JS.

My exposure to FP has not been "pure", but I have really enjoyed its influence in the languages that I use every day (Rust being the latest).