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| | [AI summary] An article explains that while Ruby supports some aspects of first-class functions like closures, its handling of anonymous functions and higher-order functions is clunky and less powerful than in languages like JavaScript.
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| | An introduction to some powerful functional programming techniques in Raku and Python.
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| | I wanted to put my notes into a separate repository, but then thought that writing the things on my blog is fine, too. Hence the post (and series)'s existence. Final Verdict So having read through the book, I can highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in functional programming. Newbies can learn a lot from the mentioned techniques and principles. People who are a bit familiar with functional programming (like me) still can find other parts to be useful and novel (on architectures and giving technical jargons of functional programming "softer" names).
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| The esoteric programming language Velato uses music as its source code. The first note of a composition establishes a "command root" note, and the intervals that follow specify instructions. The command root can be changed between statements, and the notes that make up a chord can be interpreted in a specified order, so there's some latitude to help a composition sound "musical." This program produces the output "Hello, World": Here's what that sounds like: A few other musical languages: Fugue, VenetianScript, Yet Another Musical Esolang.