Ep 052: Functions! Functions! Functions!

Functional Design in Clojure

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Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.

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This week, our topic is: "Functions! Functions! Functions!" We wonder how we could function without these critical building blocks, so we catagorize their varied uses.

Selected quotes:

"Functions put the fun in functional."

"Each function category has a different mindset."
"Programming is more fun when you're only thinking about the problem in front of you."
"Naming bits of computation helps you understand an abstraction without having to dip into it."
"So you don't want the function to be called 'write-or-fetch-or-sleep-or-return!'?"
"Side effecting functions shouldn't think. They are grunts."
"The I/O fairy hands you data, and you get it all transformed with pure functions, and then you hand it back to the I/O fairy."
"That Twitter use case, that has a lot more side effects."

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