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Jul 8, 2016

Lambda Calculus in JavaScript — Part 1

This tutorial is for those who want to understand lambda calculus without having to use the original syntax.

It is based in JavaScript. You need to know Arrow Functions in JavaScript. You can try the examples in the browser console, or…

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Santosh Rajan in Functional JavaScript

Apr 11, 2014

Recursion

Recursion, Tail Calls, Proper Tail Calls, Examples

Recursion is the process in which a function is called by itself, either directly or indirectly. Recursion allows you to write some very elegant code. But when using recursion you need to be aware of…

Santosh Rajan in Functional JavaScript

Mar 25, 2014

Higher Order Functions

Closures, function factories, common factory pattern functions

In the first chapter we saw first class functions, ie. functions as first class citizens of the language. Higher order functions are functions that do one of…

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Santosh Rajan in Functional JavaScript

Mar 25, 2014

Functions

Basics, anonymous functions, constructor, predicates

Functions are the basic unit of code reuse in JavaScript. Functions are also about much more than just code reuse as we will see in this chapter. This chapter will build the readers capabilities in…

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Santosh Rajan in Functional JavaScript

Mar 24, 2014