Getting to grips with functional programming
Thoughtworks Technology Podcast
Thoughtworks
4.5 • 58 Ratings
🗓️ 14 November 2019
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
Any developer that’s moved from an object-oriented language to a functional one knows how disconcerting the shift can be. It demands a completely different mindset.
In this episode, our regular co-hosts Neal Ford and Alexey Villas Boas talk to Gregorio Melo about functional programming. He’s just written a book about functional programming, using Clojure as its basis. Together they explore why developers choose to learn functional languages and how they can make the learning curve less daunting.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello and welcome to the ThoughtWorks podcast. My name is Alexei. I'm the head of technology for Thought |
| 0:14.1 | TalkWorks Brazil, and I'll be one of your hosts this time together with Neil Ford. Hello, Neal. |
| 0:18.6 | Hello, Alexi. I'm one of your other regular host, Neil Ford, based out of Atlanta, Georgia. |
| 0:24.1 | And this time we'll have Gregorio Melo. So, hello, Gregorio. Would you mind introducing yourself? |
| 0:29.5 | Hey, Alexei. Hey, Neil. Thanks for inviting me. Yeah, so I'm Gregory Melo, also known as Greg. |
| 0:35.6 | I'm a software that I thought works for the past eight years, |
| 0:40.1 | and I'm looking forward to my sabbatical. |
| 0:42.8 | Oh, cool. |
| 0:43.3 | When's that? |
| 0:44.4 | It's in two years' time. |
| 0:46.9 | That's wonderful. |
| 0:48.5 | So we're here to talk a little bit about closure, functional programming. |
| 0:54.2 | So you just published the new book. |
| 0:58.5 | Is that so, Greg? |
| 0:59.4 | Unfortunately, it seems that for the time, it's only in Portuguese. |
| 1:03.1 | Let's hope that's not the case for long. |
| 1:05.2 | So what's the title of the book and what is it all about? |
| 1:08.7 | So this year, I finished this personal project of releasing a book on functional programming |
| 1:13.6 | that consolidates the way I learned the concepts around it. |
| 1:17.6 | And it's called functional programming and introduction with closure. |
| 1:22.6 | And it covers the basic concepts and it tries to be to provide newcomers to functional programming |
| 1:31.3 | and provide a very low barrier to entry to functional programming concepts and we cover |
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