@neauoire I love that paper a lot and also the talk "the future of programming" by Bret Victor
lots of great ideas from the past that still have not been adopted.
I don't really know very much about this but it feels like part of the problem is how CPUs are designed. we have extremely fast out of order processors connected to a very large and complex memory hierarchy
unless of course the paper is just talking about programming style. but idk it's much harder for me to map functional programming to assembly or what hardware does
@pry Backus talks about how the current CPU design hinders alternative ways of programming because they might not map well to the current CPU/RAM style architecture where you branch and jump to labels and things.
That Bret Victor talk is excellent btw, I'm due for a rewatch.