Functional Programming in 40 Minutes. Speaker: Russ Olsen - | Software Development

Functional Programming in 40 Minutes.

Speaker: Russ Olsen - Author of Getting Clojure and Eloquent Ruby, VP at Cognitect

Functional programming has finally escaped from academia. These days developers are building real systems in functional programming languages like Clojure, Scala, Elixir and F#. Functional techniques are also seeping into more traditional languages like Java and Ruby. Unfortunately somewhere along the way functional programming has also developed a reputation for being deep and mysterious: Good programs achieve the Zen-like state of being functional which somehow involves immutability, higher order functions...

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