The elegance of Haskell
A couple of years ago I spent some time playing with Haskell. Not enough to get good with it, but enough to get an idea what it is about. After I satisfied my curiosity, I let it drop because I saw no...
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I recently wanted to calculate some binomial coefficients in Erlang, and so needed an implementation of the factorial function. No problem. The factorial function is the canonical illustration of how...
View Articlemap, mapp, and mapc
In a 1988 paper called Algebraic Identities for Program Calculation, Richard Bird wrote: Probably the most useful law about map is the fact that it distributes over functional composition: (map f) ....
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