Recently, upon the recommendations of a few people, I picked up a copy of the book “Beautiful Architecture: Leading Thinkers Reveal the Hidden Beauty in Softwareâ€�.  This book is a great read and includes essays from some of the top minds in software today.  Some of the topics covered a...

In the past I’ve extensively talked about creating monads, but not as much more around them in terms of why you might use them and what problems they are trying to solve.  Since that time, I’ve been challenged by others to actually prove not only that it can be understood by everyone, but t...

Remember fear is the mind killer, so just get over it and learn Functional Programming ~ Kevin Smith talking about Erlang The two afternoon sessions, Erlang the Basics and Functional Concepts for OOP Developers, were one - two punches to the gut, in a good way.  If you tried to read a Functional Pr...

I’m going to write about two Haskell things I’ve used today, both of which were new to me: first, creating/consuming JSON using Sigbjorn Finne’s json library; second, using pattern guards to make the “consuming” part prettier than my first butt-ugly attempts. Earlier to...

In case you missed it, Python's BDFL a.k.a. Guido van Rossum filed some major complaints about Scala. After you read that, read a good rebuttal and especially observe the ensuing debate. I especially liked Tony Morris's closing salvo. He brings some validity to the ad homenim response: Maybe you don...

Concurrency is a problem that faces all developers as we move to the age of ManyCore processor architectures. Managing state is an important aspect of programming generally and for parallel programming especially. The great Brian Beckman demonstrates three ways of labeling a binary tree with unique...

Concurrency is a problem that faces all developers as we move to the age of ManyCore processor architectures. Managing state is an important aspect of programming generally and for parallel programming especially. The great Brian Beckman demonstrates three ways of labeling a binary tree with unique...

Arrows in JavaScript. Arrows generalise computation schemes from the sequential version provided by monads, and are thus hard to bend one’s head around. It’s interesting to see them in JS. category theory, computer science, computing, functional programming, haskell, javascript, programm...

Lately I've been getting back to basics with regards to recursion.  This is a basic and essential skill, especially in the functional programming world.  Today's dive will be into immutable lists and recursion.  I'll do my best to provide the F# and C# equivalent to each call.  T...

Lately, I've been doing some functional C# in both user groups and on this blog.  As the C# language has evolved it has definitely taken some functional programming aspects, such as high order functions, extension methods, LINQ and so on.  But with that, there is a cost.  Functional p...