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The functional approach to programming by Guy Cousineau

The functional approach to programming Guy Cousineau ebook
ISBN: 0521576814,
Format: djvu
Page: 447
Publisher: Cambridge University Press

So I was thinking in the shower about how agile technical practices and functional programming both aim for something like “good” code, but then it occurs to me that — no surprise — “good” doesn't tell me much. If object-oriented and procedural languages offer a more linguistic approach to programming, functional programming suggests a more mathematical approach. Dilbert - Agile programming I have very similar thoughts myself. Talking about the functional programming folks picking up Scala more and more, even Martin Odersky said this in his comment on one of such inflamatory posts .. As anyone with even a passing familiarity with functional programming knows (and I accept that passing familiarity usually comes only after three to five years), things in a functional language don't do anything (the way procedures execute or variables change in conventional languages); instead they are something, and what they are never changes. I am at my most So the techniques are to use a time box approach—a week, two week, three weeks, whatever you decide on, just schedule for that time box—one time box at a time and you can also just set a budget. Sometimes the only way to grok a functional programming concept is reimplementing it. I want to listen to what each “ side” is excited about — not for The upshot of all this is that having a library of functional bits to work with well complements for me working in an agile approach. I still don't do much functional programming in my data to day life beyond the occasional bit of Scala hacking, but I find that functional concepts make it really easy to break down certain kinds of problems regardless of which language I'm using. December 2nd, 2009 | Programming. Functional approach is interesting. I thought for a long time that functional programming could be the solution, and studied it in detail. For example, it's really easy to write a binary search implementation using a functional approach. Despite the fact that Python is not a pure-functional programming language, it's multi-paradigm and it gives you enough freedom to take credits from functional programming approach. A term may OK, clearly there's lots wrong with this approach, so let's see if a functional approach can do any better. Functional programming is becoming more and more mainstream these days. Monoids are a I've taken the lesson from Dave Fayram and implemented the same approach in PHP. At the start of the project, I know the least about what the software should do. For my side projects there is no way I would draw up a functional specification. C# 3.0, Python & Ruby have embodied many of the functional approaches.