Re: functional programming
- From: Veli-Pekka Tätilä <vtatila@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: programmingblind@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Mon, 14 Jan 2008 17:12:23 +0200
Hi Jared,
I like the mix of functional and imperative features. But pure
functional programming is annoying, probably due to the syntax with
speech, say in Lisp. If you know Perl, higher-order Perl offers a mix of
both styles:
http://hop.perl.plover.com/
What I've found useful in coding include:
- Map, grep, zip and the rest of the lot including the functional stuff
in Ruby's ENumerable and Perl's List::MoreUtil
- Closures, anonymous function factories, memoization
- The basic idea behind lazy iterators
- Recursion and manual tail call optimization
- Playing with symbol tables to do module exporting, reflective library
features and so on.
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With kind regards Veli-Pekka Tätilä (vtatila@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx)
Accessibility, game music, synthesizers and programming:
http://www.student.oulu.fi/~vtatila
Jared Stofflett wrote:
> I know that functional programming languages such as scala and f# are
> starting to gain popularity. Is functional programming worth learning
> and if so where can I find good tutorials on it? Thanks.
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