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oop, Programming

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What is difference between functional and imperative programming languages?

Most of the mainstream languages, including object-oriented programming (OOP) languages such as C#, Visual Basic, C++, and Java were designed to primarily support ...

June 3, 2022
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functional-programming, Programming

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Why hasn’t functional programming taken over yet?

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June 1, 2022
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haskell, Programming

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What is an appropriate type for smart contracts?

I’m wondering what is the best way to express smart contracts in typed languages such as Haskell or Idris (so you could, for ...

May 31, 2022
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functional-programming, Programming

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Is there a software-engineering methodology for functional programming? [closed]

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May 31, 2022
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Java, Programming

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Does Java SE 8 have Pairs or Tuples?

I am playing around with lazy functional operations in Java SE 8, and I want to map an index i to a pair ...

May 29, 2022
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Programming, scala

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difference between foldLeft and reduceLeft in Scala

I have learned the basic difference between foldLeft and reduceLeft foldLeft: initial value has to be passed reduceLeft: takes first element of the ...

May 28, 2022
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C#, Programming

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List of strings to one string

Lets say you have a: List<string> los = new List<string>(); In this crazy functional world we live in these days which one of ...

May 27, 2022
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Programming, Python

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Python: Why is functools.partial necessary?

Partial application is cool. What functionality does functools.partial offer that you can’t get through lambdas? >>> sum = lambda x, y : x ...

May 27, 2022
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How can I count occurrences with groupBy?

I want to collect the items in a stream into a map which groups equal objects together, and maps to the number of ...

May 26, 2022
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Best explanation for languages without null

Every so often when programmers are complaining about null errors/exceptions someone asks what we do without null. I have some basic idea of ...

May 25, 2022
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