Chapter 1. Embrace the Truth
"Object oriented programming makes code understandable by encapsulating moving parts. Functional programming makes code understandable by minimizing moving parts." | ||
| -- Michael Feathers | ||
The history of functional programming can be traced back to the Church and Rosser's original work on Lambda Calculus in 1936 and yet, the concepts and implementation of this important programming paradigm are somehow limited to academia while its object-oriented and imperative counterpart dominates the industry. Good news is, this trend is changing fast! With the functional paradigm support in modern programming languages, such as Scala, Clojure, F#, Ruby, and to some extent, the omnipresent JavaScript, the benefits of functional ...
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