Can Programming Be Liberated from the Von Neumann Style?
Tikhon Jelvis has it right!
And some more findings and opinionn on functional programming. Including discovery of the possibility compile-time garbage collection (to be studied):
https://www.quora.com/Why-does-functional-programming-have-such-a-high-status-in-academic-circles
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ML_(programming_language)
http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/2047
https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/339666/managed-code-could-gc-be-taken-care-of-during-compile-time
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4471-3810-5_14
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/227295133_Compile-time_garbage_collection_for_lazy_functional_languages
https://lirias.kuleuven.be/bitstream/123456789/131304/1/Mazur.pdf
