Preface

This book was born of frustration. We were each involved in a large project with a lot of event-based logic. Petty problems regularly turned into long days of debugging.

Anthony joined a team working on a complex configuration GUI full of plumbing that was replicated over and over. He decided to tidy this up by shifting all the logic to a single abstraction called PublishedScalar. This was a revolutionary change.

Stephen was working on embedded development for vehicle telematics, and the challenges kept coming. He started fantasizing about a career change to truck driving but instead found new approaches in functional programming.

A lot of leading-edge work goes on quietly in the Haskell programming language community. Stephen found ...

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