#119 FP Reaches the Masses with Paul Snively
From Happy Path Programming by Bruce Eckel & James Ward
January 24, 2026 · 1h 29m · Season 1 · Episode 119
About this episode
The episode discusses the mainstream adoption of Functional Programming with guest Paul Snively.
We chat with Paul Snively (https://x.com/JustDeezGuy) about how Functional Programming has gone mainstream.Resources- Winter Tech Forum - https://www.wintertechforum.com- Paul Snively's LambdaConf Talk on Verse - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBT0j14rn5c- Paul Snively's Blog Post on the Verse Calculus - https://paul-snively.github.io/posts/2022-12-15-verse-calculus.html- Eugenio Moggi, "Notions of Computation and Monads" (1991) - https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~crary/819-f09/Moggi91.pdf- "Implementing Lazy Functional Languages on Stock Hardware: The Spineless Tagless G-machine"** by Simon Peyton Jones - https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/1992/04/spineless-tagless-gmachine.pdf- The Verse Calculus Paper - https://simon.peytonjones.org/verse-calculus/- "How to Solve It" by George Pólya - https://press.princeton.edu/books/paperback/9780691164076/how-to-solve-it- Fidelity Framework - https://github.com/FidelityFramework- Happy Path Programming Episode #37 from Aug 14, 2021 "The Future of Everything with Paul Snively" - https://open.spotify.com/episode/62iyGUUwh5CBkxkDpJmUuoDiscuss this episode: https://discord.gg/XVKD2uPKyF
People in this episode
Hosts: Bruce Eckel, James Ward
Guest: Paul Snively
Topics covered
- Functional Programming
- Mainstream Technology
- Software Development
- Programming Languages
- Tech Conferences
Keywords
- Functional Programming
- Mainstream
- Tech Forum
- LambdaConf
- Verse Calculus
- Software Development
- Programming
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: Winter Tech Forum, LambdaConf, Fidelity Framework
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