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Why did the Haskell committee choose monads to represent IO?
The Clean language uses uniqueness types to handle IO in a purely functional setting. Why did the Haskell committee go with monads instead? Were there other proposals for handling state that the ...
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2answers
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Where are functional languages used? [closed]
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Functional Programming in Commercial Software
Which problems domains are more suited to functional programming solutions
I just wonder where do functional programming ...
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2answers
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Language that can statically ensure a map's fields are present
If data is simple and objects are complex, I'm curious if there are any existing statically typed languages that would be able to augment(?) a map type into a type with guaranteed fields. I realize ...
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Hard Time Learning Haskell
Just to give a quick background I'm 18 years old, going to college this fall, started programming when I was in middle school. I made the decision to hold up on development for one of my Web projects ...
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9answers
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Scheme vs Haskell for an Introduction to Functional Programming?
I am comfortable with programming in C and C#, and will explore C++ in the future. I may be interested in exploring functional programming as a different programming paradigm. I am doing this for fun, ...
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3answers
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Is there any material on practical programming in Coq?
I just finished reading Coq in a Hurry, which is a very good tutorial I found online. I got very exited about Coq.
Is there any material on practical programming in Coq? Like printing the result of a ...
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3answers
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choosing a functional language platform for a new project
I have been writing code for a few years now and I don't believe I can claim to have a complete knowledge in this job yet.
My experience primarily rolls around C# related areas with a decent ...
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Is Object Oriented stuff really that important? [closed]
For years, I have been doing Algorithmic stuff, writing scalable data structures for internet search, for example Randomized Binary Search Trees for Auto Recommendation, BitMaps, Wisdom of Crowd based ...
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4answers
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Why is it good not to rely on changing state?
This question arises out of the question Is Haskell worth learning?
Generally a few often repeated statements are made, about how Haskell improves your coding skills in other languages, and ...
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Unit testing statically typed functional code
I wanted to ask you people, in which cases it makes sense to unit test statically typed functional code, as written in haskell, scala, ocaml, nemerle, f# or haXe (the last is what I am really ...
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Is Haskell's type system an obstacle to understanding functional programming?
I'm studying Haskell for the purpose of understanding functional programming, with the expectation that I'll apply the insight that I gain in other languages (Groovy, Python, JavaScript mainly.)
I ...
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5answers
579 views
What is the most compatible, widely used production language to export knowledge and skills gained from Haskell?
I like Haskell, plain and simple. While Haskell is used in production software, it's not especially widely deployed from what I've seen. What is the most similar and still widely used language in ...
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A programming language that does not allow IO. Haskell is not a pure language
Are there any 100% pure languages (as I describe in the Stack Overflow post) out there already and if so, could they feasibly be used to actually do stuff? i.e. do they have an implementation? I'm not ...
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3answers
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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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7answers
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What kind of things are easy in Haskell and hard in Scala, and vice versa?
There has been some intermingling of Scala and Haskell communities, and I have noticed now and then people commenting on stuff that's supposed to be easy in Haskell and hard and Scala. Less often ...
