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Unit, bind, flatten
I’m 3/4 of the way through my Gold Card day, and I think I can finally tell a monad from a modron, and even from a maenad. Whether this will translate into a presentation anyone else can understand is...
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Now I remember why I hate computers
You know, I really like Scala in principle, but in practice it sure would be nice if the example code, straight out of the box, would actually, like, compile.
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Substantial forms of being
So I gave my pizza lunch talk on monads today, having over the past couple of weeks snuck in considerably more than a single Gold Card day’s worth of work. I think it went fairly well and was mostly...
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His code not ‘functional’ or ‘elegant’
In the middle of another gold card, this one on Actors (PDF), a concurrent programming abstraction that Scala borrowed from Erlang. The Scala short tutorial on actors isn’t much help, at least not to...
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