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by throwaway81523 1771 days ago
We're talking about typed FP so only SML in your list really counts. So let's see: functors, polymorphism, higher-kinded types (does SML have those?), Hindley-Milner type inference, etc. Then for Haskell (the main topic of the linked article), bring in a bunch of unfamiliar algebra such as the notorious monoid on the category of endofunctors. It is actually worth understanding that. I liked this article (prerequisite: some exposure to Haskell):

https://www.haskellforall.com/2012/08/the-category-design-pa...

This is also good:

https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Haskell/Category_theory

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> We're talking about typed FP so only SML in your list really counts.

I like your sense of humor.

Appeal to Wikipedia Fallacy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming

LISP certainly shows up in the discussion. It's even called the first functional programming language!

There's not really an official definition of FP. There are some proposed ones that involve types and some that don't involve them. Mainly though, this is a thread about the linked article, which is about the tribulations that the author had learning Haskell. Most of those tribulations were with the type system and I think that matches most people's experience. You can't transplant it to Lisp.