1 Learning functional programming
In this chapter you will learn
- who this book is for
- what a function is
- how useful functional programming is
- how to install needed tools
- how to use this book
“I can only approach you by particular examples and let you infer what it is.”
—Richard Hamming, “Learning to Learn”
Perhaps you picked up this book because ...
You are curious about functional programming 1
You heard about functional programming, read the Wikipedia entry, and looked at a few books too. Maybe you rolled your eyes at the mathy explanations behind all the code, but you still remained curious about it.
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