Tag Archives: functional programming

OOP is the your new legacy

Posted on December 20, 2016 by Giovanni Giorgi
Today I took a light rail with my son, to bring him to school. That tram is 90 years old. It has been maintained for 90 years. Milan city sold some of them to San Francisco too.
This entry is part 20 of 18 in the series Programming Languages
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Functional Programming In Depth, part II:Python and Scala retrospection

Posted on August 29, 2011 by Giovanni Giorgi
This is the second article on functional programming. In the first one we talked about scala and the type inference system it brings in the Java Way of Life. I played a bit with python functional howto, building a small … Continue reading →
This entry is part 15 of 18 in the series Programming Languages
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Functional Programming

Posted on July 18, 2011 by Giovanni Giorgi
Because of the success of my article on java closure, I have decided to write another article on functional programming. In the last year functional programming is waving back to us, for a lot of reason. Let’s summarize the facts: … Continue reading →
This entry is part 14 of 18 in the series Programming Languages
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Being Functional F#

Posted on May 18, 2011 by Giovanni Giorgi
F# is a Microsoft research Language. F# is riding the functional revenge way of the last years. F# is a mixed approach, because some variables can be modified. It borrows a lot of things from Haskell and OCaml  (Wikipedia dixit). … Continue reading →
This entry is part 12 of 18 in the series Programming Languages
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lambdaj

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Giovanni Giorgi
How many times have you read or written the same two or three lines of code that frequently seem to go together, and even though they operate on different objects, feel like the same thing? And how often these repetitions … Continue reading →
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Closure in C#

Posted on January 7, 2011 by Giovanni Giorgi
After the success of Closure in Java we like to show you a good example in C# too. C# has a very strong support for Lambda functions, because it needs to support the LINQ language constructs. So defining a closure … Continue reading →
This entry is part 10 of 18 in the series Programming Languages
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Closure in Java: fast and nice!

Posted on February 26, 2010 by Giovanni Giorgi
Working for two very important Banks, I have the need to play with Closure in Java. I have a lot of trouble looking at a good description of the subject, until I read a post on StackOverflow. I have decided … Continue reading →
This entry is part 6 of 18 in the series Programming Languages
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