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What aspects of Haskell led to its rise in popularity among experts?

20 years ago, the Functional Programming world was all about Lisp and Scheme. When I went to college in 2001, my Fall Semester Freshman CS 101 course was taught in OCaml. However, these days the ...
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What are/would be the characterists and applications of a programming paradigm where functions can't have statements?

Suppose there is a language where, instead of statements, functions could only be defined in relation to other functions and operators such as partial application and composition. What would be the ...
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