Irrational Exuberance

Entries tagged with functional

1. Title: Writing Join in Erlang
   Tags: Erlang functional

   Erlang doesn't have a built in function for joining strings, and so I sat down to put one together quickly. A quick look at two different ways that join can be implemented.

2. Title: Thoughts on Dating Erlang
   Tags: Erlang functional

   I have been working on a project using Erlang for the last few days, and have been enjoying it a good bit. Its given me a few topics to think about: message passing and functional string handling, among others.

3. Title: Filtering Arrays in Objective C
   Tags: ObjC functional

   A quick look at how to filter NSArrays in Objective C.

4. Title: Failure of Implicit Conventions: Determining Function Destructiveness
   Tags: functional language design

   The distinction between destructive and non-destructive methods is important, but most languages rely on unwritten convention to differentiate one from the other. We need to do better than this.