Are Databases and Functional Programming at odds?

Question

I\'ve been a web developer for some time now, and have recently started learning some functional programming. Like others, I\'ve had some significant trouble apply many of

Answer 1

I'm most comfortable with Haskell. The most prominent Haskell web framework (comparable to Rails and Django) is called Yesod. It seems to have a pretty cool, type-safe, multi-backend ORM. Have a look at the Persistance chapter in their book.