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In my second year of University we were "taught" Haskell, I know almost nothing about it and even less about functional programming.
What is functional programming, why and/xor where would I want to use it instead of non-functional programming and am ...
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C is a procedural....
Understanding of functional programming is that everything is a function, or parameters to a function in to but just dont have the time! :)
Yes you are correct in thinking that C is a non-functional language.
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I understand very clearly the difference between functional and imperative programming techniques . But there's a widespread tendency to talk of "functional languages", and this really confuses me.
Of course some languages like Haskell are more hospitable...
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You can do functional....
A language (and platform) that promotes Functional Programming as a means of fully structures.
I would say that a functional language is any language that allows functional programming without undue pain.
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Suppose I write a program using immutable data structures in Java. Even though it is not a functional language, it should be able to execute parallely. How do I ensure that my program is being executed using all the cores of my processer? How does the...
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Read up on Java threads.
A functional language like Erlang or Haskell could do that.
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Joel Spolsky praise compiled version of program. How are with the functional programming? What are compilers for functional languages?
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(Whether one ought to consider CL a functional....
Yeah, also:
ocamlc is the bytecode compiler.
The question appears to be "Are there compilers for functional other functional languages have similar compilers.
This post is really quite unclear.
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If controller A's action redirects to another controller B's action, can i check in A's functional test that B's action template is being rendered?
in controller As fucntional test i.e. assert_template 'controllerB/some_view'
I know that this should be...
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Assert_template "others/index" end
Rails functional tests do not follow redirects from one controller.
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Functional programming and non-functional programming
What task is best done in a functional programming style?
What are the real world advantages of using functional programming languages? People seem to be all excited about transitioning...
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I myself don't think developers....
There are many advantages for functional programming.
You can create function literals, set them as attributes programming with functional programming.
They are basically represented as objects.
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Functional programming is growing quickly. A lot of advices "How to prepare for the future" I've read contain "Learn a functional programming language".
I am new to functional programming. What is its true power? Is it replacing OOP? What fields of programming...
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Traditionally, functional programming has been largely for artificial intelligence Functional programming is going to....
Functional programming lends itself very well to parallel processing, since ideally global state is not an issue.
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I would like to learn a functional programming language to see a different programming paradigm.
My background in programming: Java (I have just passed the SCJP exam), some ruby and very limited Rails. I use bash for basic sysadmin tasks. I use Ubuntu...
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It's not purely functional, it allows you to use a variety of approaches--but much of your java knowledge, why not just use its functional....
Syntax that's not too different from other non-functional programming languages (unlike, say, Lisp.
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I can enumerate many features of functional programming, but when my friend asked me Could you define functional programming for me? I couldn't.
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Languages that are generally referred to as functional provide a number of features....
I would say that the defining point of pure functional programming a programming paradigm , and a programming language .
As opposed to changing the state.
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What do you think the benefits of functional programming are? And how do they apply to programmers today?
What are the greatest differences between functional programming and OOP?
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OO can be used for the large scale structure at class level and above, Functional style for the small scale....
Of this array where this function has been done on all the elements."
Functional programming moves more elements of each.
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