4 posts tagged with "functional programming"
FP for R users--more than avoiding loops
Earlier this week, I was searching for some materials for this month's R user group meeting at work. In the process, I came to a recorded webinar on functional programming led by none other than Hadley Wickham himself. The webinar focused…
Faking immutability in JavaScript
As I continue my study of functional programming, I also try to bring its key ideas into my own projects. Immutability is one such idea. Put simply, immutability means never directly altering data while operating on them. Instead, we…
Playing with functions for fun and practice
I have been familiarizing myself with functional programming through the Haskell language. All the while, I am also realizing that JavaScript, especially since ES6, also supports many functional programming features. Here, Eric Elliot's…
Getting into Haskell instead of...
By a strange turn of fate, I'm getting into Haskell and functional programming instead of other things I originally planned to study, including Go. Yes, I admit that my current interest in Haskell and functional programming, in general, is…