Hello,
I have a free time and would like to do functional programming and learn some functional programming language.
But as we know the best theory it is practice. In this regard, I would like to know in which sector is most often used functional programming? I understand if the project is written in a functional language that is somehow justified. Therefore, such a question: what kind of projects easier and more profitable to write in functional languages?
Thank you
Financials, Statistics, and Scientific Computation are the three areas where Functional Programming are used the heaviest.
You could always throw together a simple statistics calculation package that works against one of the various social networks out there. An F# stats application against the StackOverflow would be an interesting project...
AI, data processing, scientific/financial/computationally intensive applications.
interpreters, hand-written recursive descendant parsers, program analyzers