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Fold and Other Functional Conjunctions

The Array Cast

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What Is a Programming Language?

I think there is kind of a widespread belief even in the functional languages that to break something down you have to. You never break it apart into two things that are kind of equal in size but you always break it into your components and start looking at smaller aspects of the input. This is not actually cleaner it's just the component is not really simpler it's smaller, he says. See see lets you work very well with individual atoms and then everything everything else is up to you this is not this is not a programming language this is a very good machine language I say while and for are very useful constructs and structures are a very good way of keeping data in mind.

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