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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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Agentultra - Designing Boring Software with Functional Programming - Part 1
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Why Why Functional Programming Matters Matters
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| | [AI summary] The author re-examines Why Functional Programming Matters to argue that programming language design reflects opinions on program design, specifically separating the concepts of 'power' and 'safety' by using a 'separation of concerns' metric where better factoring makes a language more powerful in practice.
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spj's y-combinator in scheme
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| [AI summary] The author explores the Y combinator and fixed-point combinators in lambda calculus, demonstrating how to implement recursive functions like list-length in Scheme using beta abstraction to manage a strict evaluation strategy.