Is there a software-engineering methodology for functional programming? [closed]
Thank God that the software-engineering people have not yet discovered functional programming. Here are some parallels: Many OO “design patterns” are captured as higher-order functions. For example, the Visitor pattern is known in the functional world as a “fold” (or if you are a pointy-headed theorist, a “catamorphism”). In functional languages, data types are mostly … Read more