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Are small amounts of functional programming understandable by non-FP people?

Case: I'm working at a company, writing an application in Python that is handling a lot of data in arrays. I'm the only developer of this program at the moment, but it will probably be ...
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Functional programming compared to OOP with classes

I have been interested in some of the concepts of functional programming lately. I have used OOP for some time now. I can see how I would build a fairly complex app in OOP. Each object would know how ...
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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 ...
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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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Is it a better practice pre-initialize attributes in a class, or to add them along the way?

I'm sorry if this is a ABSOLUTELY sophomoric question, but I'm curious what the best practices are out there, and I can't seem to find a good answer on Google. In Python, I usually use an empty class ...
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Is there a name for this functional programming construct/pattern?

I wrote a function and I'd like to find out if it is an implementation of some functional programming pattern or construct. I'd like to find out the name of this pattern or construct (if it exists)? ...
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Guidelines for creating referentially transparent callables

In some cases, I want to use referentially transparent callables while coding in Python. My goals are to help with handling concurrency, memoization, unit testing, and verification of code ...
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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 ... self.foo = "it's a bar" self._do_some_stuff(self) ...