Do you have to look at Rails models with 2500 lines of code? Or 200 line methods loaded with iterators, conditionals and instance variables? Not only you, even the code author does not understand what’s going on in there.
Clojure is often described as a small Java library for some concurrency improvements. It’s not easy to write a proper concurrent application on JVM and any help in this area is always warmly welcome. In general, Clojure is a Lisp-like functional programming language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine …
F# supports automatic generalization and automatic types inference. F# allows us to define a function without specifying the exact type of each one of the arguments neither the type of the returned value. The exact type will be determined during the compilation.
This video discusses functional programming in Python.
Luke Hoban, the Program Manager for Microsoft’s F# Team, presents functional languages.
Functional languages have become the new media darling in programming, and for many developers not familiar with them from their university days, the renewed interest seems mysterious and mind-boggling. What does a functional programming language offer that a traditional object-oriented language like Java or C# doesn’t? In this presentation, we …
