The functional approach to programming

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• ericssmith · Dec 21, 2015 · Recommends

  Real World OCaml https://realworldocaml.org The Functional Approach to Programming (Cousineau)

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• undecidabot · Jan 12, 2019 · Recommends

  Another great but lesser known CS book is "The Functional Approach to Programming". It uses Caml (a predecessor of OCaml). Like SICP, it covers a wide range of CS topics, although it's probably not as accessible as HtDP.

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• undecidabot · May 31, 2020 · Recommends

  …one of the best introductions to ML's module system and even covers building a (toy) tactical theorem prover. Oh, and it's now available online for free as well [1]. Another great book on FP is "The Functional Approach to Programming" [2], which is a bit like SICP but using Caml (OCaml without the O) instead of Scheme. [1] https://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~lp15/MLbook/pub-details.html [2] http://pauillac.inria.fr/cousineau-mauny/main.html

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• jysandy · Jul 5, 2022 · Recommends

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• gnosis · Dec 27, 2009 · Recommends

  "The Functional Approach to Programming" by Cosineau and Mauny

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• happy4crazy · Apr 11, 2011 · Mentions

  I play around with Haskell quite a bit, but not so much ML. Do you know why ML won out at CMU? I'm reading Cousineau's "The Functional Approach to Programming", which is based on ML, and I end up just translating most things into Haskell--the syntax feels much cleaner to me.

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• necovek · Sep 23, 2024 · Mentions

  …was some time, if they do it wrong, the cost is usually a bug. I am guessing you mean "only cost was some time" (without the "thing")? As for the topic, my hypothesis is slightly different — adopting functional approach to programming — even in imperative languages — leads you to the best patterns (or as you put it, "makes it inevitable") when combined with "evolutionary" architecture, and DoP is certainly one of them. However, for…

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