Thinking About Functional Programming
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ggm
3 months ago
So aside from "just do it" and "I dunno about you, I couldn't finish SICP" (me neither btw, and yes, I did a Haskell course and feel very confused. 40 odd years into my computing career) .. what other recommendations are there? Because much though I align with this blog, it's literally.. "just do it"
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