Ask HN: Where are the Functional Relational Programming languages?

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This [great paper][OutOfTheTarPit] was mentionned in a previous [HN discussion][PapersForProgrammers].

It introduced me to the idea of Functional Relational Programming (not to be confused with Functional Reactive Programming), an approach to minimizing complexity in software.

I looked around to find an implementation of this approach and found nearly nothing (except [these][FRP_Scheme] [two][FlowJS] posts on the frp-discuss google group).

Is there any fundamental reason why this idea has not received more attention ? Is somebody working in an implementation of these ideas ?

  [OutOfTheTarPit]: http://web.mac.com/ben_moseley/frp/paper-v1_01.pdf
  [PapersForProgrammers]: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2922108
  [FRP_Scheme]: https://groups.google.com/d/msg/frp-discuss/BNmBgtqRUFY/bZd36V7OnpQJ
  [FlowJS]: https://groups.google.com/forum/#!topic/frp-discuss/XFfqvH3g0qE

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