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| | This time of year, I always find it interesting the number of articles telling you the top languages you should learn. Yes, there's a steady stream of these types of articles throughout the year but right at the end when a new year is about to start is when I've seen them the most. Titles typically include something along the lines of "Top Five languages to learn in 2020", "Languages to improve your developer life", "Programming Languages that you need to know in 2020".
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| | A selection of functional programming concepts that I feel are helpful to all developers.
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| | A post about how the foundations of functional programming have neat effects on real-life programming
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| In a purely functional language - like lambda calculus - programs are expressed as nested function calls. Repetition in such an environment requires that nesting of function calls continues until some condition is met. During the repetition, each function passes its result to the next function in the nested chain and this repetition is completed when a test for some condition passes. The repetitive behaviour I've just described is recursion: