I just finished reading An Introduction to Functional Programming Through Lambda Calculus by Greg Michaelson. Towards the end, the author teaches some SML and Lisp. I came across a handful of short functions that took advantage of SML’s structure pattern matching syntax and recursion, two very…

Like these ninjas, the term monoid is a bit aggressive and intimidating. In practice, though…

You’ve probably read many times that the goal of functional programs is to achieve a state where…