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Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters
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The return of functional programming | Musings and digressions
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| | But first What is functional programming Functional programming is a programming paradigm in which most computation is treated as evaluation of functions. It emphasizes on expression evaluation instead of command execution. Wikipedia When did it all start In the 90s, there was a war between declarative programming and imperative programming. Declarative programming then represented by logic programming languages like Prolog and early functional languages like Erlang. And imperative languages were r...
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What Functional Programming Is, What it Isn't, and Why it Matters
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| | The core premise of functional programming, in my opinion, is that local reasoning and composition make for better code. Here I discuss what these terms mean and the benefits they bring.
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Agentultra - Designing Boring Software with Functional Programming - Part 1
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Why Are There Functions?
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| [AI summary] Bruce Eckel argues that while functions originated as units of code reuse to save space and effort, their primary purpose in modern programming is to serve as units of meaning and to create small frameworks.