Link: Functional Programming from First Principles

Link: Functional Programming from First Principles: Part 1 motivation An interesting start to what looks like a series of articles on functional programming. I’ve often found that once people give functional programming a real and proper try they get it quite quickly, but that many programmers resist it. Perhaps they give it a half-hearted try but it’s almost as if they want to dislike it. There may be some selection effects going on here, so perhaps there are people that give it a real and solid try but still give-up as it’s not to their tastes, but I never hear of them because they’re not in my circles. ...

July 28, 2026