Why Functional Programming

One months ago, I was asked what is functional programming? Although familiar with some of the concept of functional programming, the Little Schemer bought from Canada six months ago also read the previous chapters, that day is not able to answer what is functional programming. Functional programming is a strange field for programmers familiar with procedural programming, and concepts such as closures (closure), continuations (continuation), and currying are a nightmare for programmers with procedural programming. Without u ...

Do we need a new programming language? You may not think you need it, but if you go to the latest trends, you may change your mind. Why does Google use go and dart two programming languages? Why do IBM, Cray, and Red hat create the three languages of X10, Chapel, and Ceylon, respectively? In the future, are these 10 programming languages (DART, Ceylon, go, F #, OPA, Fantom, Zimbu, X10, Haxe, Chapel) able to shake it. The new programming language is ...

Normally do we need a new programming language? You might think we do not need it. But if you understand the recent trends, your ideas may change. Why did Google use both GO and DART programming languages? Why did IBM, Cray and Red Hat create X10, Chapel and Ceylon respectively? In the future, these 10 programming languages ​​(DART, Ceylon, GO, F # OPA, Fantom, Zimb ...

Do we need a new programming language? You may not think you need it, but if you go to the latest trends, you may change your mind. Why does Google use go and dart two programming languages? Why do IBM, Cray, and Red hat create the three languages of X10, Chapel, and Ceylon, respectively? In the future, are these 10 programming languages (DART, Ceylon, go, F #, OPA, Fantom, Zimbu, X10, Haxe, Chapel) able to shake it. New programming language ...

Do we really need so many new programming languages? There is no doubt that the choices currently being made by developers are quite rich. command-type languages, functional languages, object-oriented languages, dynamic languages, compiled language interpretive languages, and scripting languages and so on seem to have completely covered all the tasks we might face, and few professionals today have been able to understand all the languages. However, new languages are still springing up at an alarming rate. Some are designed by students or enthusiasts in the form of personal projects, others from large it vendors. Not even ...

Just like most software applications, developers are writing artificial intelligence projects in multiple languages, but there isn't a perfect programming language that can be fully equipped with artificial intelligence projects.

In January 2014, Aliyun opened up its ODPS service to open beta. In April 2014, all contestants of the Alibaba big data contest will commission and test the algorithm on the ODPS platform. In the same month, ODPS will also open more advanced functions into the open beta. InfoQ Chinese Station recently conducted an interview with Xu Changliang, the technical leader of the ODPS platform, and exchanged such topics as the vision, technology implementation and implementation difficulties of ODPS. InfoQ: Let's talk about the current situation of ODPS. What can this product do? Xu Changliang: ODPS is officially in 2011 ...

The intermediary transaction SEO diagnoses Taobao guest stationmaster buys cloud host technology Hall This Sunday, Voofox is about to hold a our internal called "The foreigner Foreigner Foreigner Meeting" The "focus party","focus party" This word is our own creation, is "focus Group + Alpha Test party". 　　After the publication of the right announcement, these days attracted a lot of ringing, so I would like to explain a little bit here. One, focus party: Here is a ...

You can't think of a programmer as being good enough to push him to the position of a system analyst, software designer, or even a software architect. If you want to find a person in a team or company that is competent for a software architect or an important position as a designer, first of all, the idea that appears in your mind, I think, is usually the best choice for a programmer. But I think you'd better not do that. This position is not random to find a good programmer can be competent. 　　It may not be appropriate to promote your most senior programmer to this position. Maybe...

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