Building Blocks

Steven Vandevelde wrote a beautifully illustrated post on some cool functional concepts.

This is a more visual approach to the topic of purely-typed functional programming. What does it mean to have a “functional” programming language? What are types? What makes a functional-programming language “pure”? These are the questions we will answer here, with a focus on simplicity.

https://icidasset.com/writings/building-blocks/

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