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Quit your job and start doing something meaningful. Start a company or join one that makes a difference.
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However, most students are not good enough at math to learn functional programming concepts.
When does this misconception disappear?
You don't need to be good at math to use functional programming. It's nice that there is a correspondence between math and FP, but it's mostly irrelevant when coding. You could as well say you need a FP background when learning math. Both statements are nonsense and usually spread by people who mostly read complicated blogposts instead of writing actual code using FP.
FP just offers a nice bunch of intuitive and predictable ways of processing information.