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As a year-deep front end developer, I have recently taken a strong interest in functional programming principles and am trying to learn their use-cases. Does anyone have ideas for small projects I can complete that will really drive home the importance/benefits of functional programming?
It's nice that JS devs are continuing to discover functional programming techniques, but it irks me a little that this is considered to be some sort of new development. JS has always attracted SICP-inspired programmers because of its strong resemblance to Scheme. Doug Crockford popularised prototypical inheritance and function programming techniques in JS on his blog nearly 10 years ago. KnockoutJS has been around fo…
* Dynamic Typing * Garbage Collection * First Class Functions
However, Python also meets those requirements. Now, looking at it from the Scheme perspective, Python is missing
* Tail Recursion * Macros * Continuations * Concise Language Spec
However, Javascript is also missing those same factors (though I might be wrong about the tail recursion). Yet, I rarely hear of Python described as an infix version of Scheme, yet I often hear that remark about Javascript.
I really want to like Javascript and I already do like Scheme, so I have a vested interest in seeing the connection, but I'm still missing something. What's the strong resemblance between Scheme and Javascript?
It's nice that JS devs are continuing to discover functional programming techniques, but it irks me a little that this is considered to be some sort of new development. JS has always attracted SICP-inspired programmers because of its strong resemblance to Scheme. Doug Crockford popularised prototypical inheritance and function programming techniques in JS on his blog nearly 10 years ago. KnockoutJS has been around fo…
As a recovering schemer, I often heard how Javascript is very closely related to Scheme, but I've never really seen the resemblance. Granted, both languages possess: * Dynamic Typing * Garbage Collection * First Class Functions However, Python also meets those requirements. Now, looking at it from the Scheme perspective, Python is missing * Tail Recursion * Macros * Continuations * Concise Language Spec However, Java…
As a year-deep front end developer, I have recently taken a strong interest in functional programming principles and am trying to learn their use-cases. Does anyone have ideas for small projects I can complete that will really drive home the importance/benefits of functional programming?
It's nice that JS devs are continuing to discover functional programming techniques, but it irks me a little that this is considered to be some sort of new development. JS has always attracted SICP-inspired programmers because of its strong resemblance to Scheme. Doug Crockford popularised prototypical inheritance and function programming techniques in JS on his blog nearly 10 years ago. KnockoutJS has been around fo…
As a recovering schemer, I often heard how Javascript is very closely related to Scheme, but I've never really seen the resemblance. Granted, both languages possess: * Dynamic Typing * Garbage Collection * First Class Functions However, Python also meets those requirements. Now, looking at it from the Scheme perspective, Python is missing * Tail Recursion * Macros * Continuations * Concise Language Spec However, Java…
Scheme gets mentioned re Javascript because: https://brendaneich.com/tag/history/
It's nice that JS devs are continuing to discover functional programming techniques, but it irks me a little that this is considered to be some sort of new development. JS has always attracted SICP-inspired programmers because of its strong resemblance to Scheme. Doug Crockford popularised prototypical inheritance and function programming techniques in JS on his blog nearly 10 years ago. KnockoutJS has been around fo…
As a recovering schemer, I often heard how Javascript is very closely related to Scheme, but I've never really seen the resemblance. Granted, both languages possess: * Dynamic Typing * Garbage Collection * First Class Functions However, Python also meets those requirements. Now, looking at it from the Scheme perspective, Python is missing * Tail Recursion * Macros * Continuations * Concise Language Spec However, Java…
As a year-deep front end developer, I have recently taken a strong interest in functional programming principles and am trying to learn their use-cases. Does anyone have ideas for small projects I can complete that will really drive home the importance/benefits of functional programming?
Not a project, but maybe check out the book JavaScript Allonge which I believe is free to read online
As a year-deep front end developer, I have recently taken a strong interest in functional programming principles and am trying to learn their use-cases. Does anyone have ideas for small projects I can complete that will really drive home the importance/benefits of functional programming?
It's nice that JS devs are continuing to discover functional programming techniques, but it irks me a little that this is considered to be some sort of new development. JS has always attracted SICP-inspired programmers because of its strong resemblance to Scheme. Doug Crockford popularised prototypical inheritance and function programming techniques in JS on his blog nearly 10 years ago. KnockoutJS has been around fo…
As a recovering schemer, I often heard how Javascript is very closely related to Scheme, but I've never really seen the resemblance. Granted, both languages possess: * Dynamic Typing * Garbage Collection * First Class Functions However, Python also meets those requirements. Now, looking at it from the Scheme perspective, Python is missing * Tail Recursion * Macros * Continuations * Concise Language Spec However, Java…
As a year-deep front end developer, I have recently taken a strong interest in functional programming principles and am trying to learn their use-cases. Does anyone have ideas for small projects I can complete that will really drive home the importance/benefits of functional programming?
From my experience with Haskell, on a practical level, I think it really comes down to a guarantee that you will not be able to mess the code up beyond a certain extant.
I am not really sure if it should be attributed to the type system or to functional programming in general. A functional programming language require a really good type system, because you need it maintain sanity with you have to chain together functions a lot more than you do in an imperative language. So I think it has to be a mix of both.