Is functional programming the hipster programming paradigm?

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Cassidy, Ceora, and Matt discuss functional programming and where it got its reputation as “the mustachioed hipster of programming paradigms.” Cassidy used to run a workshop teaching functional programming with JavaScript and currently works with Elixir, “a fully functional programming backend.”.

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