Functional programming doesn't actually compete with imperative programming.
In practice, functional programming is a way of organizing imperative programs. Kind of like how OO is a way of organizing imperative programs.
Almost all applications written in Haskell use the IO monad quite a bit, for example. Large Haskell projects generally use a lot of C libraries, and sometimes even directly include C code for performance sensitive bits.
In practice, functional programming is a way of organizing imperative programs. Kind of like how OO is a way of organizing imperative programs.
Almost all applications written in Haskell use the IO monad quite a bit, for example. Large Haskell projects generally use a lot of C libraries, and sometimes even directly include C code for performance sensitive bits.