Thoughts on Functional Programming Podcast

I explore the idea that Functional Programming is more expressive than Procedural Programming (and why it is) using a metaphor of a pizza master.

Functional Programmers will talk about immutable values. What do they mean? How can you write software where none of the values change?

John Hughes, FP researcher extraordinaire, says Whole Values is one of the principles of Functional Programming. But what does he mean? We explore this important concept.

Our understanding of the real world has to be applicable to the software world. Our programming paradigms need to correspond to our intuitions of the real world.

The divide and conquer pattern is a widely used functional programming pattern. It lets you turn potentially hard problems into trivial problems and then recombine the answers.

Well, this one is probably the most controversial. But I think the #3 most important idea has something to do with the problem of exponential growth of the number of possible states we can represent as we add bits to our system.

In my opinion, the #2 most important idea is something that came directly out of computing. But I’m not so sure. Do you know? Let me know, too!

Is there some reason a business would choose Clojure over other languages? Let’s find out!

The idea of the Universal Turing Machine is incredibly important. But does your language support both properties?