Monthly Archives: February 2009

99% Pure Functional Programming

By John Croisant | Published: 2009/02/16
In my recent adventures in Haskell and Scheme, I was immersed in the concept of functional programming. Haskell in particular has a strong relation with the notion of pure functions, i.e. functions without side effects. A pure function does nothing except calculate and return some value based on the input parameters. I like pure functions, [...]
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Fun (and not-so-fun) with Haskell and Scheme

By John Croisant | Published: 2009/02/12
Lately I’ve been poking around at some new-to-me programming languages, Haskell and Scheme. I don’t expect to use either of them in a serious, practal project (except maybe Scheme for scripting GIMP), but they are both “weird” enough that it’s fun to learn them and expand my horizons. For Haskell, I’ve been following along with [...]
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