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Functional programming is a programming paradigm which makes it easy to create, reason about, and compose functions.
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What are functional-programming ways of implementing Conway's Game of Life
I recently implemented for fun Conway's Game of Life in Javascript (actually coffeescript but same thing). Since javascript can be used as a functional language I was trying to stay to that end of ...
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Should one comment differently in functional languages?
I'm just getting started with functional programming and I'm wondering about the correct way to comment my code.
It seems a little redundant to comment a short function as the names and signature ...
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Values, types, kinds, and…?
We all know what a value is. A type is the type of a value. A kind is (loosely) the type of a type. A type constructs a value; a kind constructs a type. So what is the type of a kind, a thing that ...
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Most “native”/integrated functional language for Mac OS X development?
If one views the CLR/.NET runtime and associated libraries as the future of windows, then the F# programming language could be seen in that light as the most native functional language. Meaning that ...
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What are combinators and how are they applied to programming projects? (practical explanation)
What are combinators?
I'm looking for:
a practical explanation
examples of how they are used
examples of how combinators improve the quality/generality of code
I'm not looking for:
explanations ...
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Example of where Functional Programming is Superior to Imperative or Object-Oriented Programming? [closed]
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Which problems domains are more suited to functional programming solutions
I've been reading about functional programming. I've been using mostly C#.net recently, and ...
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Which functional language is good for a beginner? [closed]
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Choosing a functional programming language
I am a C++ programmer looking to learn a functional language as a hobby and out of sheer curiosity. I am not looking to be an ...
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what is the purpose of arrows?
I am learning functionnal programming with Haskell, and I try to grab concepts by first understanding why do I need them.
I would like to know the goal of arrows in functional programming languages. ...
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Should I start out with Lisp or go straight to Clojure? [closed]
I have no experience in functional programming but want to learn it in order to become a better programmer and expand my horizons. I do most of my programming on the JVM using Java and Groovy.
I’m ...
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Which problems domains are more suited to functional programming solutions
Which problems domains are more suited to functional programming solutions and why? Can anyone provide any examples?
EDIT Just to clarify, I'm not asking for a list of problems. I want to know what ...
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How can I translate ML code to F#?
Recently I found a book, Purely Functional Data Structures and all the examples in this book are given in ML with Haskell versions in its appendix. But I only know one programming language with the ...
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Why isn't functional programming embraced more widely? [closed]
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Why isn't functional programming more popular in the industry? Does it catch on now?
I've been working as a J2EE developer for the past 3 years and wanted to learn ...
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Functional programming: Writing a small interpreter
I'm working on a small Unix shell, and am contemplating the idea of writing a script interpreter. While reading about the subject I inevitably hear of functional programming, lambda calculus, and find ...
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How should someone used to FP thinking read imperative code?
I graduated from university about five months ago, and have been working in a local startup for past four months. While at university, I studied Haskell, F# etc on my own. We were taught Java at the ...
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Long parameter list versus long state variable list
In a C++ book, the author says we no longer need a function with a long parameter list because most of the parameters can be refactored into state variables in a class.
On the other hand, a ...
