Elixir is far too generous. I realize how cossetted I am when I go to use function clauses in JavaScript. Because you can’t do that. I personally detest if statements, along with case — perhaps to a fault. Function clauses redeem me. Why? Because there is lawtable by which I abide: Let the complexity of […]
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Today, this week’s series on my favorite functions and patterns in functional programming concludes with ‘lens’
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This is the fourth post on my favorite functions and patterns in functional programming. Today, I’m sharing the function `debounce`.
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Thank you for joining me as I share my favorite functions and patterns in functional programming. Today’s focus is on the function group_by.
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Welcome to the second installation in my series on functions and patterns in functional programming, featuring function: curry, named after Haskell Curry.
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This is just one segment in a compilation of my favorite functions and patterns in functional programming. This bit focuses on the with statement.
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This series shall be comprised of a series of micro-posts where each entry targets a single utility function or design pattern in functional programming.
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Once he wrote his own implementation of Conway’s Game of Life, Jonathan finally felt like a real programmer. He continues to apply this tactic when learning a new language or library. Here, he shares the results of using it on Ramda.
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Jonathan shares code samples that prove how functional programming helped resolve some coding challenge problems much faster, and with fewer lines of code, than more imperative approaches would have — even for more imperative languages such as JavaScript.
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Indulge him for a moment while Jonathan Walters, software engineer at Revelry, makes a connection between parataxis in literature and loose coupling in programming.
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