Comment Re:Future of Programming (Score 2, Interesting) 326
It's quite something isn't it, how so few people on even slashdot seem to get this. Old habits die hard I guess.
Years ago a clever friend of mine clued me into how functional was going to be important.
He was so right and the real solutions to concurrency (note, not parallelism which is easy enough in imperative) are in the world of FP or at least mostly FP.
My personal favourite so far is Clojure which has the most comprehensive and realistic approach to concurrency I've seen yet in a language ready for real world work.
The key thing to learn from it is how differently you need to approach your problem to take advantage of a mutli-core world.
Clojure itself may never become a top-5 language but they way it approaches the problem surely will be seen in other future FP langs.