<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8" standalone="yes"?><rss version="2.0" xmlns:atom="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" xmlns:content="http://purl.org/rss/1.0/modules/content/"><channel><title>Functional Programming on Allanderek's blog</title><link>https://blog.poleprediction.com/tags/functional-programming/</link><description>Recent content in Functional Programming on Allanderek's blog</description><generator>Hugo -- 0.139.0</generator><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:07:16 +0000</lastBuildDate><atom:link href="https://blog.poleprediction.com/tags/functional-programming/index.xml" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml"/><item><title>Link: Functional Programming from First Principles</title><link>https://blog.poleprediction.com/posts/link-functional-programming-first-principles/</link><pubDate>Tue, 28 Jul 2026 15:07:16 +0000</pubDate><guid>https://blog.poleprediction.com/posts/link-functional-programming-first-principles/</guid><description>&lt;p>&lt;a href="https://www.endoflineblog.com/functional-programming-from-first-principles-part-1-motivation">Link: Functional Programming from First Principles: Part 1 motivation&lt;/a>
An interesting start to what looks like a series of articles on functional programming. I&amp;rsquo;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&amp;rsquo;s almost as if they &lt;em>want&lt;/em> 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 &lt;em>still&lt;/em> give-up as it&amp;rsquo;s not to their tastes, but I never hear of them because they&amp;rsquo;re not in my circles.&lt;/p></description></item></channel></rss>