June 2014
Intermediate to advanced
180 pages
4h 21m
English
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Preface
The first time I seriously looked at functional programming was in 2004. I became intrigued by alternative languages on the .NET platform, and started playing with Haskell and a few pre-F#, ML-based languages. In 2005, I did a conference talk named “Functional Languages and .NET” at a few venues, but the languages at the time were more proof-of-concept and toys than anything else. The possibilities of thinking within a new paradigm fascinated me, however, and changed the way I approached some problems in more familiar languages.
I revisited this topic in 2010 because I observed the rise of languages such as Clojure and Scala in the Java ecosystem and remembered the cool stuff from five years before. I started one afternoon on Wikipedia, following link after link, and was mesmerized by the end of the day. That started an exploration of numerous branches of thought in the functional programming world. That research culminated in the “Functional Thinking” talk, debuting in 2011 at the 33rd Degree Conference in Poland and the IBM developerWorks article series of the same name. Over the course of the next two years, I wrote an article each month on functional programming, which was a great way to establish and maintain a research and exploration plan. I continued delivering (and refining, based on feedback) the presentation until the present day.
This book is the culmination of all the ideas from the “Functional Thinking” talk and article series. I’ve found that the best way to ...
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