Functional programming is often perceived as being good for either mathematics or multi-core programming. As for its huge benefits for modern web architecture and development, they are not really known. This video gives a few arguments about why functional programming matters for today’s and tomorrow’s web.
http://www.zengularity.com/item/1519646134/functional-web-functional-programing-for-web
Computation Abstraction: Going beyond programming language control syntax, or what we’ve missed from FP for so long in mainstream
For a long time, and due to the lack of main FP concepts in most mainstream languages, we missed opportunities to abstraction and code expressiveness and conciseness. With today’s democratization of FP, Computational Abstraction is what will enable us to be less dependent on specific programming language syntax offering; creating libraries of control structures and composition forms that help find concise and expresive solutions to enterprise programming challenges (null, lists treatment, error handling), capturing elegantly important business concepts in code, and programming at the right level of abstraction.For a long time, and due to the lack of main FP concepts in most mainstream languages, we missed opportunities to abstraction and code expressiveness and conciseness. With today’s democratization of FP, Computational Abstraction is what will enable us to be less dependent on specific programming language syntax offering; creating libraries of control structures and composition forms that help find concise and expresive solutions to enterprise programming challenges (null, lists treatment, error handling), capturing elegantly important business concepts in code, and programming at the right level of abstraction.
Slides: http://sadekdrobi.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/12/Computation-Abstraction666iiioii6jjjjjjhjj-5.pdf
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LinQ is often understood in terms of introducing a Domain Specific Language to work with data to C# and .Net in general. The fact is:it is not, and there is a considerable difference between LinQ syntax nature and a DSL. The problem is that DSL definition is blur enough to take anything interesting or cool under it!
A great discussion I had with Don Syme at QCon SF. Don is one of the heroes to thank for .Net generics and he is a major contributor to F# design, Thanks Don!
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This is an interview I did at QCon with Ted Neward. Talking to Ted was very interesting even though arguing with him turned to be not easy at all :)
In QCon London 2008, I had the opportunity to have an interview with one of my heros: Simon Peyton Jones. Simon has an enormous capacity of making the answer to almost any question precise and clear no matter how abstract the subject is. I Strongly recommend that you have a look at this interview if you are interested in programming languages in general. Following Simon’s talks and interviews requires almost no prior knowledge about functional programming or Haskell.
In this interview, computer scientist and researcher Simon Peyton Jones discusses properties of functional programming languages, and particularly Haskell, that have inspired some features in mainstream languages. He gives his opinion on the issues of syntax and language complexity and talks about some research work on subjects such as Data parallelism and transactional memory.
Bio
Honorary Professor of Computer Science at the University of Glasgow, Simon Peyton Jones currently works at Microsoft Research in Cambridge. He has led several research projects focused on the implementation and applications of functional programming languages. He has greatly contributed to the design of the Haskell language, and is the lead designer of the Glasgow Haskell Compiler.
Access this exclusive interview published at InfoQ.com
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