I am having a lot of trouble trying to understand the hype behind functional programming. I have read McCarthy's paper on LISP, completed Odersky's course on Scala etc. No revelation so far ( yes, maybe I am stupid, but I won't admit it ). Is it only useful for study as a model that inspired modern programming languages ? For example :
"obvious power of code becoming data."
Many languages have eval() where data can be treated as code.
"obvious power of code becoming data."
Many languages have eval() where data can be treated as code.