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Functional programming

A monad is just a monoid in the category of endofunctors

Brief​

Functional programming is an important paradigm. A lot of very good techniques have emerged from this field and have been incorporated in many languages, including C++. std::optional, std::variant, std::transform and many others are inherited1 from Functional Programming.

Going further​

Going Further

Scott Wlaschin, The Power of Composition (1h) A sweet intro to some functional concepts

Sy Brand, Building an Intuition for Composition (1h)

Gabriel Lebec, Fundamentals of Lambda Calculus & Functional Programming in JavaScript (1h) The theory behind functional programming

Scott Wlaschin, The Functional Programmer's Toolkit (1h)

Mark Seemann, Functional architecture - The pits of success (1h)

Richard Feldman, Why Isn't Functional Programming the Norm? (45min)

Scott Wlaschin, Functional Design Patterns (1h)

  1. Notice the pun 😉↩