Functional Programming Through the Lens of a Philosopher & Linguist • Anjana Vakil • GOTO 2021

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Anjana Vakil - Developer Advocate at Observable
Lars Jensen - Lead Developer at GOTO

TIMECODES
00:00 Intro
01:21 From linguistics to programming
08:58 The human performance factor
13:13 Functional programming
21:02 Benefits of programming in a functional way
25:18 Declutter your programming and learn new things
28:25 The adoption of functional programming (concepts)
33:30 Functional programming for everyone?
45:48 Where to start?
52:56 Outro

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#FunctionalPrograming #Programming #Linguistics #Elixir #BEAM #BEAMvm #Elm #FP #Erlang #JS #Python #Scala #Fsharp

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[GG-uzus]

Funny thing is when people create a functional programming language, based on what needs in the real world, people start adding procedural and oo stuff in, eventually all languages are hybrid.

[InsolentDrummer]

As a linguist and a developer myself I often search for such topics to see who and how promotes ideas of linguistics and philosophy, like communicating with people first and only then sending instructions to a machine, in software development as the industry suffers from lack of proper communication and mere understanding of its importance. I was glad to hear such ideas having been voiced, but I was rather disappointed that only 10 out of 50 minutes were devoted to such ideas and no elaboration was provided despite the title of "functional programming thru the lens of...". You were discussing functional programming all the way through, although this paradigm very old and everybody seem to have already heard at least one word about it. Not much use.

[gabrielgkabelen]

Thanks so much Anjana for sharing your knowledge about this topic.
Many regards from Indonesia.

[stevebiko]

Best talk for me on Functional Programming. Easy to understand.Thank you Anjana Vakil & Anjana Vakil.

[realidadlavidareal]

I am really thankful for the subs! Very interesting and hope to study programming related career. She is really charismatic and really give me motivation to try the career.

[SasiKumar-nomx]

Are you from an Indian family? Anjana is perfectly an Indian name. Great to see you. from India👍

[QariNomanAnwer]

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[SebastianAlvarezz]

Excellent video! You answered some questions I had about functional languages. I'm from Philosophy, I don't know coding, but I´ve read "Structure and Interpretation of programming languages" and I became very interested about LISP and its dialects.

[naseemonn]

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[Equilibrier]

I think Anjana's talking too much :). A dialog with the moderator would have been much more interesting and constructive.

[BryonLape]

Functional programming is more than 60 years old.

[andreibozantan]

she says very few things using many words, quite the opposite of what you achieve with a functional language

[inception]

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[joeyalfaro]

I'm very sorry but I could not watch so annoying listening to her voice.