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Archive for the ‘Functional programming’ Category

I first learned about functional programming a few years ago when I took a class in Haskell programming at my university, Chalmers. While Haskell might not be for everyday use, many of the concepts are very compelling, such as higher order functions, pattern matching, lazy evaluation, list comprehensions, lambda functions and map/fold/filter. Over the years [...]



  • Joe: It looks like IceCoffee Script may provide the 'await' keyword to JavaScript. http://maxtaco.github.com/coffee-script/
  • Florian: Dealing with events has two primary fashions: imperative (synchronous) code, and callback (asynchronous) code. Both are legitimate styles, for some
  • Joe: I think we haven't seen true PaaS offering yet in Azure. If you use a webrole you're still running on your own VM. This is still not true multi-tena

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