ILilliarian·Apr 7, 2023
Another useful resource is Functional Jargon Explained (in Javascript): https://github.com/hemanth/functional-programming-jargon
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Jargon from the functional programming world in simple terms!
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24 sourcesAll code I've seen that uses Ramda looks like the one in the example.
No idea what your comment about jack shit is about. Haskell is often just as bad as Ramda.
Edit. By the way. All the unusable and unreadable jargon that Haskell uses can be much more easily explained with Javascript: https://github.com/hemanth/functional-programming-jargon Make of it what you will
In Functional Programming – How and WhyFunctional Programming Jargon is great at explaining these concepts. Monad: https://github.com/hemanth/functional-programming-jargon#mon...
Purists will say it's not entirely correct, but we don't care about purism :)
In What’s so great about functional programming anyway?'lisp is a binary tree / heap': https://code.google.com/archive/p/graphbook/
functional programming jargon: https://github.com/hemanth/functional-programming-jargon
practicing data structures (programming languages): https://opendsa-server.cs.vt.edu/
https://opendsa-server.cs.vt.edu/OpenDSA/Books/PL/html/index.html
https://github.com/CodyReichert/awesome-cl#data-structures
In Ask HN: I like studying the concept of abstractionsBe the change you want to see in the world haha
https://github.com/hemanth/functional-programming-jargon/pul...
In Functional programming jargon in plain EnglishI get why they chose to do this in Javascript, but I can't help but feel it's an awkward choice. Many of the examples (e.g. currying) look unnatural in javascript.
https://github.com/hemanth/functional-programming-jargon
In Functional programming jargon in plain EnglishFunctional programming jargon in plain English
557 points · Open discussionThere's "Functional Programming Jargon" which explains all these concepts in Javascript: https://github.com/hemanth/functional-programming-jargon
In How side effects work in FPThe best explanation of functional concepts is (rather unsurprisingly) done using Javascript. See Functional Programming Jargon: https://github.com/hemanth/functional-programming-jargon#mon...
Purists say that it's not correct (monadic laws and all that), but it's a vastly more approachable explanation than literally any monad tutorial.
In An Introduction to Type Level Programming in Haskell> they insist on using Haskell syntax throughout, and this is most likely to be unfamiliar and obtuse to programmers looking for this kind of articles.
Indeed, that is a big part of a problem.
I find "Functional Programming Jargon" [1] extremely approachable (if you already know modern JS) even though it has been pointed out that their definitions might not be "pure"/correct enough.
[1] https://github.com/hemanth/functional-programming-jargon#mon...
In Monads as a Programming PatternJargon from the functional programming world in simple terms
2 points · Open discussionNot category theory, per se, but this link on functional programming was trending on hn a few months back: https://github.com/hemanth/functional-programming-jargon
Some people have noted that not all definitions are complete or accurate, with many missing altogether. Despite that, it is a pretty good starting point.
In Of Algebirds, Monoids, Monads, and Other Bestiary for Large-Scale Data (2013)That's why this exists: https://github.com/hemanth/functional-programming-jargon
:)
In Common combinators in JavaScriptFunctional Programming Jargon Explained with JS
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