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This question has been going through my mind quite a lot lately and since I haven't found a convincing answer to it I would like to know if other users
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In the recent years, even though OOP is still the most popular programming paradigm, functional programming…
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This question has been going through my mind quite a lot lately and since I haven't found a convincing answer to it I would like to know if other users
of this site have thought about it as well.
In the recent years, even though OOP is still the most popular programming paradigm, functional programming…
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I recently started studying functional programming using Haskell and came upon this article on the official Haskell wiki: How to read Haskell.
The article claims that short variable names such as x, xs, and f are fitting for Haskell code, because of conciseness and abstraction. In essence, it claims…
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When would you NOT want to use functional programming? What is it not so good at?
I am more looking for disadvantages of the paradigm as a whole, not things like "not widely used", or "no good debugger available". Those answers may be correct as of now, but they deal with FP being a new concept (an…
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It seems to me that functional programming is a great thing. It eliminates state and makes it much easier to automatically make code run in parallel.
Many programmers who were first taught imperative programming styles find it very difficult to learn functional programming, because it is so different…
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The Batch Best Practices for Oracle Utilities Application Framework based products (Doc Id: 836362.1) and Technical Best Practices for Oracle Utilities Application Framework Based Products (Doc Id: 560367.1) have been updated with updated and new advice for the various versions of the Oracle…
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As most C++ programmers should know, partial template specialization of free functions is disallowed. For example, the following is illegal C++:
template <class T, int N>
T mul(const T& x) { return x * N; }
template <class T>
T mul<T, 0>(const T& x) { return T(0); }
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Say I have a class which represents a person, a variable within that class would be $name.
Previously, In my scripts I would create an instance of the object then set the name by just using:
$object->name = "x";
However, I was told this was not best practice? That I should have a function set_name()…
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I have been given the task to design a database to store a lot of information for our company. Because the task is rather big and contains multiple modules where users should be able to do stuff, I'm worried about designing a good data model for this. I just don't want to end up with a badly designed…
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All,
I'm in the process now of building a SaaS tool that allows network admins to generate notification emails to the members of the end-users of our platform (among many many other things). I'm running into a bit of an "out of my expertise" wall, as I know there are a lot of variables involved…
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