[xquery-talk] Functional paradigm shift

[Adam Retter]

I should have also mentioned this free course -
https://www.coursera.org/course/progfun

I took it the first time it ran and it is truly excellent. I think you
may be able to do it non-live as well, by just downloading all the
materials and video lectures. If not I am certain it will run again
soon.

On 12 December 2013 00:26, Ihe Onwuka <ihe.onwuka at gmail.com> wrote:
> SICP - great book :)
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> Read Picturing Programs by Stephen Bloch. It is more likely to tax your
> patience than your brain. If you find that too slow How to Design Programs.
> Both of which are free on the web.
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> Casual observation. Every time I have bought a Functional Programmng book
> that was written by a developer rather than an academic, (done it about 5
> times now) I have regretted it.
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> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 11:21 PM, Misztur, Chris <CMisztur at macleanfogg.com>
> wrote:
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>> Thanks.  How would you write invoking a logger and exception checking?
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>> On Dec 11, 2013, at 5:11 PM, "Adam Retter" <adam.retter at googlemail.com>
>> wrote:
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>> I think the classic text is SICP (Structured Interpretation of Computer
>> Programs). This can be downloaded for free.
>>
>> If you still do .Net stuff, maybe worth switching to F# to force you more
>> into a functional approach.
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>> > For example I am doing this a lot:
>> >
>> > let $result := some-func()
>> > let $a := if($result eq 0)
>> > then()
>> > else(logger:log($result),error())
>> >
>> > It just doesn't feel right.
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>> Sequences are the key. One approach is to just map/transform on sequences,
>> if you have an empty sequence then nothing happens, else you get the
>> expected result ;-)
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>> > -c
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