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Functional Programming using JavaScript
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Re: Functional Programming using JavaScript
#12For those you want to learn the functional programming I'd suggest to immedeately commence looking at Ocaml/Haskell instead to see the real big picture. Because it's of course adorable that you can write map and compose in JS (it's 2014, it can do it everywhere), but FP = many more serious things.
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#13Anyone care to take a crack at this SO question?
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/26811628/performance-of-n...
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#14I'm a huge fan of lo-dash, but might switch to Ramda. Here's a rundown:
Re: Functional Programming using JavaScript
#15Trying to ride the wave: I have written about functional programming in javascript, see blog posts http://bahmutov.calepin.co/tag/functional.html - Ramda is great!
Re: Functional Programming using JavaScript
#16For those you want to learn the functional programming I'd suggest to immedeately commence looking at Ocaml/Haskell instead to see the real big picture. Because it's of course adorable that you can write map and compose in JS (it's 2014, it can do it everywhere), but FP = many more serious things.
Edx has a course in functional programming using Haskell. I haven't taken it yet but I'm going over Christmas.
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#17finally, a slide deck that uses `history.replaceState` instead of `history.pushState`. no more having to hit "back" 90 times to exit the deck. how the latter ever became a pattern is beyond me. [EDIT] it probably became a pattern because of browsers that didnt implement the history API, so all hashchange events were pushed onto the history stack.
To be honest, using replaceState for this doesn't seem to make sense to me. A user would probably want to go backward and forward through this using browser history navigation (for instance using the navigation buttons on their mouse).
If you're launching a link from a page you expected to come back to, surely opening the link in a new tab would be the way to accomplish this?
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#18finally, a slide deck that uses `history.replaceState` instead of `history.pushState`. no more having to hit "back" 90 times to exit the deck. how the latter ever became a pattern is beyond me. [EDIT] it probably became a pattern because of browsers that didnt implement the history API, so all hashchange events were pushed onto the history stack.
To be honest, using replaceState for this doesn't seem to make sense to me. A user would probably want to go backward and forward through this using browser history navigation (for instance using the navigation buttons on their mouse). If you're launching a link from a page you expected to come back to, surely opening the link in a new tab would be the way to accomplish this?
personally, i've always used arrow keys, swipes, pgup/pgdn to nav between slides. i want a single-action "exit slide deck to previous page", and the browser's back is the logical place for that to be, imho.
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#19This is a really nice presentation that introduces a lot of concepts well and also helps a person conceptually understand how functional programming fits in to the larger programming world. Book mark it and share it.
I agree, a lot of people tout how functional programming is easier to both read and write, but this really puts things in perspective. I especially like how he explains how the different standard functional functions work in very simple terms and immediately shows the advantages of using them.
Re: Functional Programming using JavaScript
#20I dislike these expositions on the "differences" between object-oriented and functional programming. The two concepts are not directly commensurable, and one can have objects with referentially transparent methods, to be used in a declarative style.