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0 pointslabrador3y ago0 comments

I should probably add that I program mostly C# so I'm getting Functional benefits like Map and Filter because Eric Meijer added LINQ. He made it his life's work for a few years to bring functional programming to the masses.

But I was minimizing state long before that because state makes any program much harder to understand.

Confessions of a Used Programming Language Salesman: Getting the Masses Hooked on Haskell http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.72....

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Rumudiez3y ago

C# might not be the best language to try FP in. F# is a popular alternative that might feel more familiar than e.g. Haskell. Since JS was one of my first languages, I learned a lot just from using the library RamdaJS which helped soften the learning curve for me

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0 pointslabrador3y ago0 comments

But I was minimizing state long before that because state makes any program much harder to understand.

Confessions of a Used Programming Language Salesman: Getting the Masses Hooked on Haskell http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.72....

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Rumudiez3y ago

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