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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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Using “public” vars or attributes in class calls, functional approach
I was always wondering about two things I tend to do in my little projects. Sometimes I will have this design:
class FooClass
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self.foo = "it's a bar"
self._do_some_stuff(self)
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If we can do functional programming with Python, do we need a specific functional programming language? [closed]
Using generators and lambda, we can do functional programming with Python. You can also achieve the same thing with Ruby.
So the question is: why do we need specific functional programming languages ...
