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Functional Programming

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Why Functional Programming Matters

  • presents benefits of lazy evaluation and composition of functions
  • examples seem a bit contrived, but perhaps it's just because i'm not familiar with the formulas and to mathematicians these are more natural. I didn't bother reasoning through them, because I knew where it was going and what it was trying to say
  • overall, a good read. you won't get much out of it if you're already a seasoned functional programmer1, but may provide the aha moment for someone coming from other paradigms

  1. though you can still read it as it's considered a classic