All articles about Functional programming
2018
2013
Modeling union types using only functions
The lambda calculus is the basis for functional programming. Church's encodings in the untyped lambda calculus show an interesting pattern that parallels union types in languages like Haskell. Here I try to show how these discriminated union types can be implemented using only javascript functions.
2012
Templates are functions
An article that looks at templates in web development in the context of pure functions and functional programming.
2010
Monads: redux
Thoughts on the appropriateness of monads in Clojure.
Ghosts in the machine
Following on from looking at state monads in the context of Clojure, this article looks at variations that add different forms of state-m of non-determinism.
Welcome to the machine
A close look at how the state monad is implemented and used in Clojure.