cercerilla@programming.devM to Functional Programming@programming.devEnglish · 1 year agoHow did you get started with Functional Programming?message-squaremessage-square24fedilinkarrow-up124arrow-down10file-text
arrow-up124arrow-down1message-squareHow did you get started with Functional Programming?cercerilla@programming.devM to Functional Programming@programming.devEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square24fedilinkfile-text
Hello fellow FP-Lemmyites. I’d love to hear stories about what got you interested in FP originally, and how you learned.
minus-squaremonobotlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoForth was language that helped me finally understand the concept, I was motivated by using it on microcontrollers, and Brian Harvey’s SICP course: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhMnuBfGeCDNgVzLPxF9o5UNKG1b-LFY9 Gentle introduction to Haskell ( https://www.haskell.org/tutorial/haskell-98-tutorial.pdf ) and Learn you a haskell… ( http://learnyouahaskell.com/) helped with haskell. Sadly I never continued with functional programming, except it made me better at programming in general. Way of thinking was eye opening for me.
Forth was language that helped me finally understand the concept, I was motivated by using it on microcontrollers, and Brian Harvey’s SICP course: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLhMnuBfGeCDNgVzLPxF9o5UNKG1b-LFY9
Gentle introduction to Haskell ( https://www.haskell.org/tutorial/haskell-98-tutorial.pdf ) and Learn you a haskell… ( http://learnyouahaskell.com/) helped with haskell.
Sadly I never continued with functional programming, except it made me better at programming in general.
Way of thinking was eye opening for me.