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portal_narlish on Oct 9, 2018 | parent | context | favorite | on: Lambda School Announces $14M Series A Led by GV

Why is it called LambdaSchool when they teach "JavaScript, Python and C"?

Clicked hoping to see a functional programming oriented bootcamp. We need one of those.

austenallred on Oct 9, 2018 [–]

Ha! Funnily enough we started out teaching Haskell.

Turns out the market for that is much smaller.

I'm really happy someone asked that question; we used to get it every day, but we don't get it anymore.

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