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A Journey Towards Functional Programming

in the beginning, after the earth cooled...I've been programming since getting a Commodore VIC-20 in the early 80s. Those early hacks were far from "functional programming". Typing out loops & gotos from code listings printed in magazines like COMPUTE!, RUN, and BYTE, I

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Functional Programming in C# with LanguageExt

LanguageExt is a library of functional language extensions for C#, created and actively maintained by Paul Louth, and available via the LanguageExt.Core NuGet package. The implementation of memoization in LanguageExt illustrates several functional concepts. Calling memo on a function memoizes it; i.e.

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Functional Programming: Week 1

Learning to program with "functional" concepts is hard. The traditional imperative approach seems intuitive, but that is likely only because it is what we've been doing since the beginning of our programming lives. Functional programming is a paradigm shift from imperative programming.

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HttpClient: you should only use one of them!

This week I ran across a useful tweet by Noel Bundick: I've done this plenty of times and you probably have too. Because if something implements IDisposable then you should probably wrap it into a using block. The C# language reference states: As a