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004 - Design Principles From Functional Programming with Runar Bjarnason

Category: Technology
Duration: 00:51:12
Publish Date: 2018-01-10 04:00:00
Description:

Runar Bjarnason has been exploring how writing in a functional style increases modularity and compositionality of software for many years. He is co-author of functional programming in scala, a book that teaches these principles in scala. It is a very challenging yet very rewarding book, sometimes referred to as simple ‘the red book’.

In this interview Runar explains how writing in a functional style involves limiting side effects, avoiding exceptions and using higher order abstractions.  Writing in this style places constraints on what a module in a software system may do, but by constraining modules in this way, the software modules themselves become endlessly composable.  

 

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Show Notes:

Functional Programming In Scala

Constraints Liberate

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