DataMass 2017 Maciej Godek - The Principles of Functional Programming

Functional programming is a technique for both increasing software’s scalability and decreasing the number of bugs. Recently it has been receiving more attention due to the fact that it is a reliable way of utilizing the power of multicore processors. As the cost of this increased attention is a large number of confusions and misconceptions, the talk will be devoted to explaining this paradigm from the first principles.