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Title: Functional Programming for the Dysfunctional Programmer
Proposer: matthew_gilliard
Proposer: thom_leggett
Type: Preconference tutorial
Duration: 360 minutes
Description:
Functional Programming is undergoing a surge in popularity with new
and exciting languages, blog posts and books appearing every week. FP
techniques are especially powerful when dealing with modern multi-core
processors and distributed systems, even though the theories on which
it is based are decades old. But despite the promised benefits, FP can
be difficult for programmers to grok.
During this tutorial you will solve lots of coding problems,
demonstrating that FP can be thought of as a style of programming
rather than a language feature. And you’ll see that by adopting
techniques and idioms from FP you can make your code cleaner and safer
no matter which language you use.
This will be an extremely practical session in the style of a dojo or
code retreat. You will be programming many tasks throughout the day
and so you will need a laptop with your text editor of choice. You
will not need any experience of FP nor any theoretical background, but
if you have either of those then bring them to share!
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