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A practical introduction to functional programming

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Many functional programming articles teach abstract functional techniques. That is, composition, pipelining, higher order functions. This one is different. I...

A practical introduction to functional programming Mary Rose Cook About Blog All posts RSS Many functional programming articles teach abstract functional techniques. That is, composition, pipelining, higher order functions. This one is different. It shows examples of imperative, unfunctional code that people write every day and translates these examples to a functional style. The first section of the article takes short, data transforming loops and translates them into functional maps and reduces. The second section takes longer loops, breaks them up into units and makes each unit functional.

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