Hot take: this is a classic paper, but didn't it turn out to be mostly wrong about why functional programming matters? Most of the motivating examples rely on lazy evaluation, which is pretty much the only idea from ML/Miranda/Haskell which has not seen adoption within modern mainstream programming languages. So while the motivating examples are very well done, it seems empirically that the main value of the functional approach lies elsewhere.
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