The Rise and Fall and Rise of Functional Programming (Composable Software)
When I was about 6 years old, I spent a lot of time playing computer games with my best friend. His family had a room full of computers. To me, they were irresistible. Magic. I spent many hours exploring all the games. One day I asked my friend, “how do we make a game?”
He didn’t know, so we asked his dad, who reached up on a high shelf and pulled down a book of games written in basic. So began my journey with programming. By the time public school got around to teaching algebra, I already knew the topic well, because programming is basically algebra. It can be, anyway.
The Rise of Functional Programming
In the beginning of computer science, before most of computer science ...
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