Summary
This chapter introduced some semantics of functional programming and how they apply these to Python code. This is by no means a complete guide to functional programming, but it covers everything that is needed to start out with functional programming: lambdas, closures, side effects, pure functions, and higher-order functions.
You should now have all the key elements to start writing functional and reactive applications. Hopefully, just like the many JavaScript developers using it today, you will find the architecture proposed in this chapter elegant, easy to use once you have the correct mindset, and scalable (in term of code size).
The application of this architecture on the echo server showed you how to solve real-life challenges, ...
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