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Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks
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Seven More Languages in Seven Weeks

by Bruce Tate, Ian Dees, Frederic Daoud, Jack Moffitt
November 2014
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
7h 8m
English
Pragmatic Bookshelf
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Day 2: Taming Callbacks

In Day 2, we’re going to build the skills necessary to attack the most sophisticated of user interface problems: building a game. We’re going to learn to handle user input and output, the most difficult concepts for functional languages. We’ll also learn to display images. You’ll find that Elm is a natural language for doing so.

As a wanna-be browser language, Elm has a big disadvantage. It’s not JavaScript. You’ll need to rely on another layer in the browser to compile Elm to JavaScript. But Elm also has a huge advantage.

It’s not JavaScript.

If you want to herd sheep like a sheep dog, you don’t necessarily have to be a dog. You just have to herd sheep.

Before we get rolling, let’s spend some time with Evan Czaplicki, ...

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