New Programming Paradigms

Functional Programming and Reactive Programming are new paradigms that are taking the software community by storm. The use of functional programming languages such as Scala have moved well beyond "research only" circles within the academic community to growing adoption for special tasks in industry.  Functional programming techniques and languages are sort of like "a new wave" following Object Oriented Programming (although the two paradigms are complementary, not competitive).

Functional Programming

Saw a great presentation by one of our interns today on Functional Programming (ala. Haskell). How practical will it prove to be and in which scenarios will it prove compelling? Hard to tell right now, but I'm pretty sure an impact will occur. There sure are a lot of related languages out there including OCaml, Haskell, Scala, F# and maybe more.