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20070102 Tuesday January 02, 2007

Introduction to Functional Programming Concepts I was reading the RSS feed for dzone and saw this well written introduction to Functional Programming. Since people have been discussing adding closures to Java, I started reading more about functional programming languages.  After spending many years watching people struggle with multi-threaded programs, I'm beginning to think function programming languages might be ready to make a come back.  Such languages encourage you to design data structures and algorithms that are independent of global (or shared) variables.
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mug shot Chris Quenelle is a tools developer at Sun Microsystems. He's worked on performance and debugging tools at Sun for more than 10 years. He reads comic books and science fiction, and has more tivos than he can keep track of.

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