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Functional programming is a paradigm which attempts to solve computational problems by the chained evaluation of functions whose output is determined by their inputs rather than the programme state. In this style of programming, side effects and mutable data are deprecated and usually strictly isolated.

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Using foldr to append two lists together (Haskell)

Folds over lists consist of three elements - the list to fold over, some accumulator function f and an initial value. They transform the list a:b:c:[] into (a f (b f (c f init))) where init is the in …
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How are typeclasses in functional languages different from interfaces in OO languages?

Typeclasses instances are effectively implicit parameters containing a dictionary of functions. This makes them different from interfaces in a few ways. One is that you don't need an actual instance …
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