While imperative programming language paradigm depends on updating mutable variables (or introducing side effect) to change state of the program, pure functional programming only uses immutable data structures to represent their state. Side effect is required if you need your program to do any work (i.e., I/O), but undesirable side-effects are the root of many … Continue reading →

While imperative programming language paradigm depends on updating mutable variables (or introducing side effect) to change state of the program, pure functional programming only uses immutable data structures to represent their state. Side effect is required if you need your program to do any work (i.e., I/O), but undesirable side-effects are the root of many … Continue reading →

A little over a year ago I wrote a post about Roslyn. Recently (after seeing Mads Torgersen‘s excellent NDC-london talk) I was inspired to attempt to write my own mini-C# compiler to address some of the missing features in C#. … Continue reading →

Learn at least one new language every year. Above is one of the best recommendations in my developer career. It is from the book, “The Pragmatic Programmer” by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. The obvious advantage of learning a new language is to expand your problem solving skills as different programming languages usually have different … Continue reading →

Learn at least one new language every year. Above is one of the best recommendations in my developer career. It is from the book, “The Pragmatic Programmer” by Andrew Hunt and David Thomas. The obvious advantage of learning a new language is to expand your problem solving skills as different programming languages usually have different … Continue reading →