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I enjoy Functional Programming, but I'm not normally evangelical about it. The other day I was asked not to use FP, so I decided to get on the soapbox for a bit.
[Direct link to PDF](http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.pdf)
>proof that your program will terminate
Or that a coprogram will be productive (services/servers/streaming fall under this).
Most programs these days operate on codata, so termination on a per-destructed-codata-component basis is productivity if I understand correctly.
(ejenk touches on thi...