Tag: functional-programming

Sandro Mancuso Talk : Functional is cool, but do you know OO

One of the best talks on SOLID design principles and OO design that I have watched recently. This talk is 4 years old but more relevant today as many programmers are trying to follow functional programming bandwagon without understanding what they are getting into. One of the best advice speaker gave is to use OO at the outside boundary of your system and FP in the inside where you are doing data transformation and processing. A lot of good literature exists on OO design so let’s make read it and try to first do OO right.

Talk: Alpaca Static Typing On The Beam

Today, I watched talk Alpaca Static Type Checking on the Beam.  alpaca-lang is a statically typed functional programming language inspired by ML family of languages for the Erlang VM. It has strong type inference based on Hindley-Milner type system. Type checker will disallow adding String to an Integer. It looks like an interesting language.  Continue reading “Talk: Alpaca Static Typing On The Beam”

Day 1 — Let’s learn about lambdas

From today, I am kicking off 7 Days with Java 8 blog series with first blog on Lambdas. One of the most important features in Java 8 is the introduction of Lambda expressions. They make your code concise and allows you to pass behaviour around. For some time now, Java is criticised for being verbose and for lacking functional programming capabilities. With functional programming becoming more popular and relevant, Java is forced to embrace the functional style of programming. Else, Java would become irrelevant.

Java 8 is a big step forward in making the world’s most popular language adopt the functional style of programming. To support functional programming style, a language needs to support functions as first class citizen. Prior to Java 8, writing a clean functional style code was not possible without the use of an anonymous inner class boilerplate. With the introduction of Lambda expressions, functions have become first class citizen and they can be passed around just like any other variable. Continue reading “Day 1 — Let’s learn about lambdas”