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=== Industry === Functional programming has been employed in a wide range of industrial applications. For example, [[Erlang (programming language)|Erlang]], which was developed by the [[Sweden|Swedish]] company [[Ericsson]] in the late 1980s, was originally used to implement [[Fault tolerance|fault-tolerant]] [[telecommunications]] systems,<ref name="armstrong2007"/> but has since become popular for building a range of applications at companies such as [[Nortel]], [[Facebook]], [[Électricité de France]] and [[WhatsApp]].<ref name="erlang-faq"/><ref name="larson2009"/><ref>{{cite conference |last=Piro |first=Christopher |title=Functional Programming at Facebook |url=http://cufp.galois.com/2009/abstracts.html#ChristopherPiroEugeneLetuchy |year=2009 |conference=CUFP 2009 |access-date=2009-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091017070140/http://cufp.galois.com/2009/abstracts.html#ChristopherPiroEugeneLetuchy |archive-date=2009-10-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref name="Sim-Diasca"/><ref name="whatsapp.blog.2012">[http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/01/1-million-is-so-2011/ 1 million is so 2011] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140219234031/http://blog.whatsapp.com/index.php/2012/01/1-million-is-so-2011/ |date=2014-02-19}} // WhatsApp blog, 2012-01-06: "the last important piece of our infrastracture is Erlang"</ref> [[Scheme (programming language)|Scheme]], a dialect of [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]], was used as the basis for several applications on early [[Apple Macintosh]] computers<ref name="clinger1987"/><ref name="hartheimer1987"/> and has been applied to problems such as training-[[Computer simulation|simulation software]]<ref name="kidd2007"/> and [[telescope]] control.<ref name="cleis2006"/> [[OCaml]], which was introduced in the mid-1990s, has seen commercial use in areas such as financial analysis,<ref name="minksy2008"/> [[software driver|driver]] verification, industrial [[robot]] programming and static analysis of [[embedded software]].<ref name="leroy2007"/> [[Haskell]], though initially intended as a research language,<ref name="hudak2007"/> has also been applied in areas such as aerospace systems, hardware design and web programming.<ref name="haskell-industry"/><ref name="hudak2007"/> Other functional programming languages that have seen use in industry include [[Scala (programming language)|Scala]],<ref>{{cite conference |last=Momtahan |first=Lee |title=Scala at EDF Trading: Implementing a Domain-Specific Language for Derivative Pricing with Scala |url=http://cufp.galois.com/2009/abstracts.html#LeeMomtahan |year=2009 |conference=CUFP 2009 |access-date=2009-08-29 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20091017070140/http://cufp.galois.com/2009/abstracts.html#LeeMomtahan |archive-date=2009-10-17 |url-status=dead }}</ref> [[F Sharp (programming language)|F#]],<ref name='quantFSharp'/><ref name='businessAppsFSharp'/> [[Wolfram Language]],<ref name="reference.wolfram.com"/> [[Lisp (programming language)|Lisp]],<ref>{{cite web |last=Graham |first=Paul |title=Beating the Averages |url=http://www.paulgraham.com/avg.html |year=2003 |access-date=2009-08-29}}</ref> [[Standard ML]]<ref>{{cite conference |last=Sims |first=Steve |title=Building a Startup with Standard ML |url=http://cufp.galois.com/2006/slides/SteveSims.pdf |year=2006 |conference=CUFP 2006 |access-date=2009-08-29}}</ref><ref>{{cite conference |last=Laurikari |first=Ville |title=Functional Programming in Communications Security. |url=http://cufp.galois.com/2007/abstracts.html#VilleLaurikari |year=2007 |conference=CUFP 2007 |access-date=2009-08-29 |archivedate=2010-12-21 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101221110947/http://cufp.galois.com/2007/abstracts.html#VilleLaurikari |url-status=dead }}</ref> and Clojure.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.infoq.com/news/2009/01/clojure_production |last=Lorimer |first=R. J. |title=Live Production Clojure Application Announced |date=19 January 2009|work=InfoQ}}</ref> Scala has been widely used in [[Data science]],<ref>{{Cite book |last=Bugnion |first=Pascal |title=Scala for Data Science |publisher=[[Packt]] |year=2016 |isbn=9781785281372 |edition=1st |language=en-US}}</ref> while [[ClojureScript]],<ref>{{Cite web |title=Why developers like ClojureScript |url=https://stackshare.io/clojurescript |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=StackShare |language=en}}</ref> [[Elm (programming language)|Elm]]<ref>{{Citation |last=Herrick |first=Justin |title=jah2488/elm-companies |date=2024-04-29 |url=https://github.com/jah2488/elm-companies |access-date=2024-04-29}}</ref> or [[PureScript]]<ref>{{Cite web |title=Why developers like PureScript |url=https://stackshare.io/purescript |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=StackShare |language=en}}</ref> are some of the functional frontend programming languages used in production. [[Elixir (programming language)|Elixir]]'s Phoenix framework is also used by some relatively popular commercial projects, such as [[Font Awesome]] or [[Allegro Platform|Allegro]] (one of the biggest e-commerce platforms in Poland)<ref>{{Cite web |last=Team |first=Editorial |date=2019-01-08 |title=ALLEGRO - all you need to know about the best Polish online marketplace |url=https://ecommercegermany.com/blog/allegro-all-you-need-to-know-about-the-best-polish-online-marketplace |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=E-commerce Germany News |language=en-US}}</ref>'s classified ads platform ''Allegro Lokalnie.''<ref>{{Cite web |title=Websites using Phoenix Framework - Wappalyzer |url=https://www.wappalyzer.com/technologies/web-frameworks/phoenix-framework/ |access-date=2024-04-29 |website=www.wappalyzer.com}}</ref> Functional "platforms" have been popular in finance for risk analytics (particularly with large investment banks). Risk factors are coded as functions that form interdependent graphs (categories) to measure correlations in market shifts, similar in manner to [[Gröbner basis]] optimizations but also for regulatory frameworks such as [[Comprehensive Capital Analysis and Review]]. Given the use of OCaml and [[Caml]] variations in finance, these systems are sometimes considered related to a [[categorical abstract machine]]. Functional programming is heavily influenced by [[category theory]].{{Citation needed|date=August 2022}}
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