LambdaCast

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LambdaCast is a podcast about functional programming for working developers. Our focus is to describe concepts using clear everyday language without watering anything down. If you've ever been curious about FP but were turned off by the jargon or unfamiliar concepts, this is the place to be. Thoughts, comments, critique? Send them to contact@lambdacast.com Music is "Lively Lumpsucker" by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License Icon is a modification of "Communicator" by Juan Pablo Bravo (https://thenounproject.com/term/communicator/47500/) Licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0 License

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22: Structuring Data

This time we discuss the way data tends to be structured in functional languages and some of the similarities with databases and REST. Episode 22 patrons: Jason Sooter Jamie Rolfs Christian Hamburger Daniel Svensson Di Wen Iulian Bojinca Jonathan Fishbein Nathan Sculli Nels Wadycki Paul Naranja Peter Tillemans Thomas Varney Tyler Harper weila wei Dawn (שחר) Show Notes: CPPCast: http://cppcast.com/ John Soo - Sharing in Haskell https://wiki.haskell.org/Sharing https://stackoverflow.com/questions/...

Jun 14, 2019•44 min

21: Type Parameters

You may have seen generics in C#, Java, or Swift but there are a lot of very useful patterns using generics that rarely get used in an OO context. In this episode, we explore Type Parameters (aka generics) from a functional perspective and how using them can improve the structure of your applications. Episode 21 patrons: Scott Smith Joel McCracken Hakon Rossebo Seth Utecht Christophe Pereira da Conceicao E. Mulder Show Notes: Add a type parameter video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BHjIl81Hgf...

Aug 10, 2018•1 hr 15 min

20: Laziness

Lazy evaluation is not normally something you hear programmers discussing but there is a lot of power available if you know how to use it. This episode we'll examine the differences between lazy and strict evaluation and look at use cases for laziness. Episode 20 patrons: Marcus Nielsen Steven Loe Ted Yavuzkurt Michael Meyers Szymon Beczkowski Parl Naranja Paul Brabban Jason Sooter Show Notes: Memoization: https://codeburst.io/functional-memoization-in-javascript-adec62508bd0 Using IEnumerable i...

Jun 18, 2018•57 min

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