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anyone here use functional programming languages?
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Date: March 26th, 2015 4:20 PM Author: Frozen boistinker What are they used for/what's the purpose of learning one? Are they extremely specific use cases? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2839593&forum_id=2#27560050) |
Date: March 26th, 2015 4:31 PM Author: Rebellious lettuce tanning salon you can use javascript in functional ways if you want. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2839593&forum_id=2#27560126) |
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Date: March 26th, 2015 4:38 PM Author: Glittery Khaki Deer Antler Water Buffalo I've used LISP before. Actually, learning LISP made me a better python programmer, because I started adopting a functional programming style.
Their real benefit is in reducing "side-effects" of function calls. That is to say, the output of a function depends only on the inputs to it. This is desirable, because it makes programs easier to understand and less prone to bugs. |
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Date: March 26th, 2015 5:42 PM Author: gold chapel karate Objective-C 2.0 has "blocks" which are basically functions. apple Swift has pretty strong support for functional programming too. You should try Playgrounds on Xcode 6 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2839593&forum_id=2#27560461) |
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Date: March 26th, 2015 5:41 PM Author: gold chapel karate it allows you to use functions as first class objects. I learned Scheme-LISP from SICP. It's a fun exercise but I've never found a use for it. Some of the best programmers I know are HASKELLpigs (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2839593&forum_id=2#27560451) |
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Date: March 26th, 2015 11:14 PM Author: aromatic blue field (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2839593&forum_id=2#27562583) |
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Date: March 26th, 2015 11:18 PM Author: Free-loading Ticket Booth it's not useful because it takes 5000 lines of code to do what 10 lines does in python (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2839593&forum_id=2#27562603) |
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Date: March 26th, 2015 11:26 PM Author: blathering hairy legs forum pure mental masturbation (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=2839593&forum_id=2#27562645) |
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Date: March 26th, 2015 11:31 PM Author: cerise effete main people qfag here, currying functions with sandeep and prateek all day erryday, sup?
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