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How functional programming achieves "No runtime exceptions"
How does a functional programming language, such as Elm, achieve "No runtime exceptions"?
Coming from an OOP background, runtime exceptions have been part of whatever framework that is based ...
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Implicit reading/writing of state in OOP hurts readability, maintainability, and testability. Good way of mitigating this damage?
OOP makes state reads and writes implicit. For instance, in Python:
class Foo:
def bar(self):
# This method may read and/or write any number of self.attributes.
# There is no way ...
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Representing mathematical tree structures using software in a compact manner
In my work I frequently come across systems of interdependent equations. I have contrived a toy example as follows. The terminal values w, x, y and z are given:
e(y) = A+B
A(y) = x*log(y)+y^z
B(y) =...
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Does functional programming increase the 'representational gap' between problems and solutions? [closed]
Since machine language (e.g., 0110101000110101) computer languages have generally evolved to higher forms of abstraction, generally making it easier to understand the code when it's applied to a ...
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Why not apply Interface Segregation Principle to "extreme"
Providing that clients would typically consume just one method, though methods would be conceptually related, why not always apply the Interface Segregation Principle to the extreme and have [many] ...
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Does functional programming ignore the benefits gained from the "On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules" (data hiding)?
There's a classic article named On the Criteria To Be Used in Decomposing Systems into Modules that I just read for the first time. It makes perfect sense to me, and is probably one of those articles ...
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How would Functional Programming proponents answer this statement in Code Complete?
On page 839 of the second edition, Steve McConnell is discussing all the ways that programmers can "conquer complexity" in big programs. His tips culminate with this statement:
"Object-oriented ...
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