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The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition
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The Joy of Clojure, Second Edition

by Michael Fogus, Chris Houser
May 2014
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
520 pages
17h 23m
English
Manning Publications
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Chapter 16. Thinking programs

This chapter covers

  • Searching
  • Thinking data via unification
  • Logic programming
  • Constraint programming

Functional programming is an attempt to reach a declarative ideal in program composition. Functional techniques can lead to code that mirrors the form of the solution, but sometimes levels of expressiveness come at a cost in terms of speed. In problems of search, for example, matters related to the “how” of search intermingle with the “what” of the solution. In this chapter, we’ll explore matters of search and querying using functional approaches compared to logical techniques.

We’ll start by discussing search and building a Sudoku solver that uses a brute-force functional approach that strives to solve the ...

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