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Resources for improving your comprehension of recursion? [closed]
I know what recursion is (when a patten reoccurs within itself, typically a function that calls itself on one of its lines, after a breakout conditional... right?), and I can understand recursive ...
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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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Haskell AND Lisp vs. Haskell OR Lisp
I currently code with C, C++, and Python. I'm wanting to pick up a functional programming language, and right now I'm leaning toward Haskell. I do NOT want to start a "Haskell vs Lisp" war here; what ...
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Haskell vs Erlang for web services
I am looking to start an experimental project using a functional language
and am trying to decide beween Erlang and Haskell, and both have some points
that I really like.
I like Haskell's strong ...
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Getters and Setters in Functional Languages
One of the tenets of Functional Programming is the use of Pure Functions. A Pure function is one that is side-effect free and referentially transparent.
Getters are not referentially transparent - ...
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Devising test of Haskell's value/reference semantics
In imperative languages, it is trivial to devise a programming test of language's use of "value semantics" or "reference semantics". One could do the following and check the value of a (where Vertex ...
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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 ...
