[Baypiggies] Everything Your Professor Failed to Tell You About Functional Programming

[Shannon -jj Behrens]

On 1/31/06, Danny Yoo <dyoo at hkn.eecs.berkeley.edu> wrote:
> On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, Shannon -jj Behrens wrote:
>
> > I wrote an article for "Linux Journal" called "Everything Your Professor
> > Failed to Tell You About Functional Programming".  It's mainly about
> > Haskell, but I thought I'd post it here because a) it's a fun read b) a
> > few of the examples are in Python.  I remain a Python fan(atic).
> > Hopefully some of you will enjoy the article.
>
> Thanks for writing this article!  It looks nice and meaty, and I've always
> wanted to learn more about monads.
>
> (Quick note on the reference to NULL in SQL; C.J. Date definitely doesn't
> like NULL at all; his O'Reilly book "Database in Depth" says that NULLs
> break the relational model and the relational algebra; the violations that
> NULL presents in SQL makes the algebra nonsensical.  So in a sense, NULLs
> do cause his his universe to come crashing down.  *grin*)

Nice ;) hahahaha

Thanks a lot for the feedback!

-jj