January 2017
Intermediate to advanced
565 pages
13h 46m
English
A more functional flavor of reactive programming is functional reactive programming (abbreviated as FRP). FRP was first described in the late '90s by Conal Elliott, who was a member of the Microsoft Graphics Research Group at the time, and Paul Hudak, a major contributor to the Haskell programming language. FRP was originally described as a bunch of functions to interact with events and behaviors. Both events and behaviors represent values that change over time. The major difference between these two is that events are values that change discretely over time, whereas behaviors are continuously changing values. There is no mention of an observer-observable pattern in FRP. Also, programs in FRP are written as ...
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