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title: Learning Functional Programming, Part Two
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author: Correl Roush
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layout: post
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categories:
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- Programming
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tags:
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- functional
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## Part Two: NO LOOP FOR YOU
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Touch on previous article contents
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Where did these concepts come from?
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Old guys years ago, doing LISP.
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Using the building blocks provided by LISP
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to create abstractions for common idioms
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-- segue into --
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What do functional languages offer
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IMMUTABLE VARIABLES!!!!
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PURITY!!!! RECURSION!!!!
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Features: functional composition, currying,
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REFERENTIAL TRANSPARENCY, PURE VS IMPURE CODE,
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isolation of failure points.
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How do they differ from OOP
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They abstract the *how*, rather than the *what*
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Emphasis on building small, reusable, generic
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functions that can be combined in different ways
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to build powerful, more complex logic.
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So, why isn't everyone doing it?
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Steep learning curve, stuffy intellectuals.
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Offer helpful articles describing functional programming
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and its core concepts. mjd's perl book. Carmack's
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article.
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NEXT: -Haskell vs Erlang / Intellectual vs Git-r-done-
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MOAR ERLANGS!!1!1one
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Why I love Haskell vs why I *ship* with Erlang.
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Share the best learning resources for each
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learnyouahaskell
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learnyousomeerlang, also purchased erlang book (!)
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Recommend sites like projecteuler for excercises--text follows this line--
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