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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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Using type-classes to model the expressivity of build systems - Nikhil's blog
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Haskell Monads - Monday Morning Haskell
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| | Monads are viewed as one of the harder topics to learn in Haskell. But they don't have to be. Learn monads the easy way, by first looking at other functional structures like functors and applicatives.
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State, Effects and Monads in Functional Programming and Haskell
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| [AI summary] A discussion thread clarifying misconceptions about state, the IO monad, and functional purity in Haskell by explaining how the language represents imperative programs as pure data structures.