Many people consider Functional Programming a miracle, that will save software from being buggy. That high expectation is doomed to fail. Nevertheless FP has its merits, and if you learn them, you will seek and maybe recognize the same merits in other paradigms as well. …

C is probably the most underrated language. It’s often considered obsolete, not hip, not fancy, not trendy, not cool. Yet C drives the whole world. It’s like oxygen in software development. If it disappeared all of a sudden one day, nothing would work anymore. Name any software, any programming language…

This is the sixth part of a series of articles about Functional Programming in PHP. Previous parts: Introduction Currying Function Composition More Functions Perhaps The concept of containing stuff is so powerful we can’t resist putting every possible things into containers. Once something is contained it’s contained. Then we can…

I’m sorry to say that I clickbaited you. You don’t need to learn how to write bad code. You already know it. It comes instinctively. You just go with the flow, and the result will be a mess. Guaranteed. The One Man Wrecking Crew If you are a programmer at the beginning of your career…

Erlang has a reputation of featuring a kind of syntax that begs for sugar so desperately, that it led to importing goodness from Ruby, and eventually inventing the Elixir language. However, for someone coming from ML languages, like OCaml or Haskell, it may even feel familiar. In this article I…

I’m a software developer for long. Approaching a magic number once again, I started to ponder what lessons I may have learned. Others might have their own story, but I have my own perspective too. …

The concept of higher-order functions is key in Functional Programming, but like recursive functions, they are also used to implement certain algorithms, programming patterns, or even writing kernel drivers. Although C is not the language that supports many FP concepts out of the box, higher-order functions can be implemented using…

This is the fifth part of a series of articles about Functional Programming in PHP. Previous parts: Introduction Currying Function Composition More Functions The Reluctant Code You won’t admit you love me. And so how am I ever to know? You only tell me Perhaps, perhaps, perhaps. So far we only saw strong-minded…

This is the forth part of a series of articles about Functional Programming in PHP. Previous parts: Introduction Currying Function Composition The first Functional Programming language, Lisp, derives its name from ‘LISt Processing’. Working with lists is a fundamental concept in FP. Imagine your favorite necklace of pearls and the…