f# - Marc Costello

How functional programming helped me recognise patterns and concepts in mathematics

I've never been strong at mathematics, and to this day I don't believe you need to be a skilled mathematician to be a good developer, but as time has gone on I've found more and more value in being able to understand and implement

A functional choice

To begin a story, a while back, I wanted to learn a functional programming language. I wanted to find out just how different the functional paradigm is to the imperative paradigm. Previously the closest I got to functional programming came from JavaScript, and I’