Part 1. Think functionally
It’s highly probable that most of your experience building professional applications has been with an object-oriented language. You may have heard or read about functional programming in other books, blogs, forums, and magazine articles, but you’ve probably never written any functional code. Don’t worry; this is to be expected. I’ve done most of my development in an object-oriented environment as well. Writing functional code isn’t difficult, but learning to think functionally and letting go of old habits is. The primary goal of part 1 of this book is to lay the foundation for and prepare your mind to embrace the functional techniques discussed in parts 2 and 3.
Chapter 1 discusses what functional programming is and ...
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