[erlang-questions] Similarities between web programming and functional programming

[Steve Vinoski]

On Sat, Jun 12, 2010 at 4:19 PM, Nilanjan Raychaudhuri
<nraychaudhuri@REDACTED> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> As a newbie into functional programming I am curious to know how functional programming style fits into building web applications? And how it
> compares to building web apps in Ruby or Java.
>
> Any pointer to article/literature will be helpful.

For a little over a year now I've write a bimonthly magazine column
called "The Functional Web" for IEEE Internet Computing magazine
(though I missed a couple issues due to workload). All issues can be
found here:

http://steve.vinoski.net/blog/internet-computing-columns/

You might take a look at the introductory article for the column to
see if it helps answer your question:

http://steve.vinoski.net/pdf/IC-Welcome_to_the_Functional_Web.pdf

--steve