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Ep 058: Reducing It Down
Functional Design in Clojure
English - December 06, 2019 15:00 - 28 minutes - 39.8 MB - ★★★★★ - 17 ratingsTechnology Education How To tech software design functional clojure immutable geek nerd development nate Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
We take a long hard look at reduce and find the first of many generally useful nuggets inside.
Each week, we discuss a different topic about Clojure and functional programming.
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This week, the topic is: "Reduce and reducing functions" We take a long hard look at reduce and find the first of many generally useful nuggets inside.
Selected quotes:
"Parentheses are a joy, they are hugs around your code."
"You want to boil it down into a result, so you use reduce."
"We've taken ahold of the cooking metaphors and are just running with it!"
"Reducing functions are a backbone of functional programming, because we don't have mutation."
"Understanding reduce is really important for understanding functional programming."
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