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Last time, we examined the advantages, benefits of programming using the functional paradigm, specifically, programming with Microsoft's Visual F#. I explained some of the syntactic sugars that allow ...

Working with functional programming requires a shift in your thinking, but has benefits in productivity for programmer and maintainer alike We all learned about ...

In the real world you will almost never use recursion. You'll use loops with known bounds because the worst case for everything will be known and controlled. There are a handful of guys working in ...