November 2017
Intermediate to advanced
670 pages
17h 35m
English
Content preview from Learning Functional Programming in Go
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Historical Events in Functional Programming
The history of functional programming is nothing short of fascinating. Functional programming languages are based on an elegant yet simple mathematical foundation, Lambda calculus.
"To understand a science, it is necessary to know its history."
- Auguste Comte
Let's look at the discoveries that led up to Lambda calculus.