This is an overview of the functional programming paradigm. In this piece, I want to explore some of the core concepts and fundamental ideas behind it. I'll try to illustrate this along the way to go as smoothly as possible. I really hope this gets you as excited as I am about what the functional paradigm can bring to the future of web development. Functional Programming has many different definitions. A Lisp programmer's definition is vastly different from a Haskell perspective. OCaml's ...

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