Functional Programming (Programming Language Paradigm)

Programming Talks tagged with: "Functional Programming (Programming Language Paradigm)"

"Writing a game in Haskell" by Elise Huard

"Writing a game in Haskell" by Elise HuardHaskell is a beautiful functional language, written by smart computer scientists, and having clever and elegant functional constructs. It clearly separates pure and impure parts of the program. Game programming on the other hand is a very hands-on discipline, trying to wring out the most of the machine's performance, and aiming ...

Zach Tellman - Always Be Composing

Zach Tellman - Always Be ComposingThe Clojure ecosystem, we're told, is made up of small, composable libraries. In practice, though, it's all too common to find that two libraries simply will not cleanly compose. This typically will lead to another library that does the same thing, but in a subtly different way. Sometimes this is ...

Functional programming design patterns by Scott Wlaschin

Functional programming design patterns by Scott WlaschinIn object-oriented development, we are all familiar with design patterns such as the Strategy pattern and Decorator pattern, and design principles such as SOLID. The functional programming community has design patterns and principles as well. This talk will provide an overview of some of these, and present some demonstrations of ...

Netflix JavaScript Talks - Async JavaScript with Reactive Extensions

Netflix JavaScript Talks - Async JavaScript with Reactive ExtensionsJafar Husain shares how Netflix uses the Reactive Extensions (Rx) library to build responsive user experiences that strive to be event-driven, scalable and resilient. Learn the power of the Observable and how Netflix has simplified code through the ability to filter, aggregate, compose and project data streams. This talk discusses how ...