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| | Improve your understanding of asynchronous code by learning the difference between synchronous and asynchronous callbacks.
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| | Last year I wrote A brief introduction to closures which was meant to help people understand exactly what a closure is and how it works. I'm going to attempt that again, but from a different angle. I think with these kinds of concept, you just need to read as many alternative explanations as you can in order to get a well rounded view. First-class functions As I explained in Why JavaScript is AWESOME, one of the most powerful parts of JavaScript is its first-class functions.
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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...