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What is the most idiomatic way to iterate collection with different action for first element?
Sometimes we meet a situation where we should iterate (or map) over a collection, applying the same procedure (function) for all elements except the first one. The simplest example is finding the max ...
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Declarative programming for deterministic real time control
Let's say you want control a motor in real time. Normally you would use a microcontroller or PC with e.g. c-programming language. So you would use an imperative approach. You tell the microcontroller ...
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Is declarative programming overrated? [closed]
I've been programming for years with primarily-imperative languages (C++, C#, javascript, python), but have recently experimented with some functional langauges (Lisp, Haskell) and was excited to try ...
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Development process used for the code on Apollo 11 missions?
The Apollo missions had technology no more complicated than a pocket calculator.
From link here, there's an information about Apollo Guidance Computer (AGC)
The on-board Apollo Guidance Computer ...
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Functional programming, compared to the process of a computer [duplicate]
In functional programming, it is considered bad practice (at least from my observations) to use state changes. Since computers operate in an imperative-language-like matter (performing one operation ...
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What makes functional programming languages declarative as opposed to Imperative?
On many articles, describing the benefits of functional programming, I have seen functional programming languages, such as Haskell, ML, Scala or Clojure, referred to as "declarative languages" ...
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Advantages of the imperative style over the functional style [duplicate]
There's a lot of hype over functional languages right now, and I've spent the last year studying Haskell as my intro to FP as a result. Seeing the advantages FP provides is easy (such as referential ...
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How do I enforce 'referential transparency' in this program?
Below is the python program written to follow the rule of thumb in functional programming.
The simple rule of thumb is: if you can replace any expression, sub-expression or subroutine call with ...
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How to structure a loop that repeats until success and handles failures
I am a self-taught programmer. I started programming about 1.5 years ago. Now I have started to have programming classes in school. We have had programming classes for 1/2 year and will have another 1/...
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How to encourage to write pure functions in imperative environments? [closed]
In functional programming languages, a developer is always cautious about writing pure functions. Some functional languages simply do not allow impure functions, and some other functional languages ...
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Cognitive Modeling Programming vs Imperative Programming vs Declarative Programming
I'm reading this article by John Funge about Cognitive Modeling for Computer Games: http://www.qrg.northwestern.edu/resources/aigames.org/1999/fungegame99.pdf
And some further detailed reading about ...
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Is it possible to use functional paradigm in imperative languages?
If I understand the concept correctly the goal, which functional languages are trying to achieve is to eliminate any side effects from functions and to eliminate a state. The rationale behind this is ...
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Inheritance in imperative programming
My first introduction to programming was Java, which was horrible so I learnt Actionscript3 which was nice... "The point is" OOP was my introduction to programming where by I went on to gain a career ...
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how to enumerate/generate all possible binary trees from N leaves and N-1 nodes?
I am trying to implement the 24 Game in ansi C. This game goes as follows:
For a list of four given numbers, try to find a solution involving these four numbers, that, using addition(+), subtraction(-...
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What is referential transparency?
I have seen that in imperative paradigms
f(x)+f(x)
might not be the same as:
2*f(x)
But in a functional paradigm it should be the same. I have tried to implement both cases in Python and Scheme, ...
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Mixing declarative & imperative code (Implicit 'unit tests' ?) [closed]
Well I'm no expert, but as a student, I'm curious about languages and their design patterns / goals.
I'd like to know, whether there are any points I miss in the following examples, and why ...
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Can a pure-functional solution to this problem be as clean as the imperative?
I have an exercise in Python as follows:
a polynomial is given as a tuple of coefficients such that the powers are determined by the indexes, e.g.: (9,7,5) means 9 + 7*x + 5*x^2
write a function to ...
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Why is imperative programming preferred over functional programming? [closed]
Background: I am proponent of functional programming who works at a VB.NET shop where the prevailing mental model is imperative programming. Being that foundation of our system is WinForms I can ...
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Differences between imperative-language and functional-language debuggers
Up to now I have always worked with imperative languages like Pascal, C, C++, Java in a production environment, so I have experience with debuggers for these languages (Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, GDB / ...
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Does the structured programming definition only consider imperative programming?
Does the structured programming definition only consider imperative programming? By this I mean does the definition of structured programming automatically exclude functional programming (in the most ...
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How to make the transition to functional programming?
Lately, I have been very intrigued with F# which I have been working a bit with. Coming mostly from Java and C#, I like how concise and easily understandable it is. However, I believe that my ...
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Example of where Functional Programming is Superior to Imperative or Object-Oriented Programming? [duplicate]
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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 I ...
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What's The Difference Between Imperative, Procedural and Structured Programming?
By researching around (books, Wikipedia, similar questions on SE, etc) I came to understand that Imperative programming is one of the major programming paradigms, where you describe a series of ...
