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I agree with your point about reasoning when employing Functional Programming (FP).

However, I very much disagree with Graham's 2004 assertion[0]:

  It's a lot of work to learn a new programming language. And 
  people don't learn Python because it will get them a job; 
  they learn it because they genuinely like to program and 
  aren't satisfied with the languages they already know.
It does not require "a lot of work to learn a new programming language" once a person has fluency with at least one. Actually, the difficulty of learning a new programming language is inversely proportional to how many programming languages the person has already learned. Especially if a new programming language is in the same paradigm category as those already known (Procedural, OOP, FP, etc.).

I was a professional software engineer in 2004, when the Graham post was written. To say, "people don't learn Python because it will get them a job ..." was bullshit then just as it is now. The remainder of the quoted sentence is unfounded extrapolation and has the value of same.

0 - https://www.paulgraham.com/pypar.html






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