February 2020
Intermediate to advanced
372 pages
9h 26m
English
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Comparing the object-oriented and functional paradigms
Although most programmers are either familiar (or work on a constant basis) with OOP, another paradigm called FP has, for many years, been gaining support among programmers who favor a purer mathematical foundation.
The works of Samuel Howse demonstrate a specification of a programming language with a pure mathematical foundation. You can find his doctoral thesis, NummSquared 2006a0 Explained, at https://nummist.com/poohbist/NummSquared2006a0Explained.pdf, and his paper, NummSquared: a New Foundation for Formal Methods, at https://nummist.com/poohbist/NummSquaredFormalMethods.pdf.
FP treats programs as the evaluation of mathematical functions, allows functions to return functions, and ...