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A Glossary of Functional Programming - John A De Goes
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| | Functional programming has a bit of jargon, but that doesn't have to stop you from understanding core concepts
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Boilerplate Busting in Functional Languages | Lambda Land
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| | This is the story of how I solved a problem (ugly, cumbersome boilerplate code) that I ran into while writing a program in a functional language (Elixir). Functional programming languages often pride themselves on expressiveness and elegance; but occasionally they are not amenable to the most obvious solutions to the problems we wish to solve. In this case, the simplest solution to my problem would have been to have a global mutable variable. But no one likes those.
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Room 101: Reflecting on Functional Programming
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| | In this post, I wanted to make a case for reflection in the context of pure functional programming. I don't know that pure functional langua...
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Peeking Into State Monads - Kendrick
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| Prelude State monads, introduced to me during the data61 functional programming course was one of my most memorable encounter with a monad. This was mainly because things only started to clicked and made a tiny bit of sense after a couple of weeks of frustration. This article is my attempt to explain the underlying mechanics of the State Monad to try and relief the frustration of whomever who was in my position.