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by newgame 4369 days ago
From what I understand, although Conal Elliot coined the term FRP first in a relatively narrow sense, today the term FRP is used much more freely to describe reactive programming using functional building blocks (especially combinators like map, filter etc.).

There are some nice papers that give an overview of the FRP landscape.

“A Survey on Reactive Programming”: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.416...

“Towards Reactive Programming for Object-oriented Applications”: http://www.guidosalvaneschi.com/attachments/papers/2014_Towa...

2 comments

This is not true at all. It is only recently and only in the SF hacker bubble that FRP has been co-opted to mean anything that is functional, reactive, and programmed.

Outside, FRP still means FRP, and using the term will automatically put your work in a certain specific bucket that you might not want to be in.

These papers actually look readable. I'll give them some time, thanks for posting!