https://www.lomont.org/tags/languages/ Recent content in Languages on Lomont.org Hugo en-us Sun, 23 Jun 2019 12:10:43 -0400 https://www.lomont.org/posts/2019/lines-of-code/ Sun, 23 Jun 2019 12:10:43 -0400 https://www.lomont.org/posts/2019/lines-of-code/ <p>Over decades I&rsquo;ve written a lot of personal code. I made a bar chart race showing how many lines I&rsquo;ve written in different languages over time.</p> https://www.lomont.org/talks/2018/intro-to-functional-programming/ Wed, 14 Mar 2018 12:58:59 -0400 https://www.lomont.org/talks/2018/intro-to-functional-programming/ <p>This talk is an introduction to functional programming, with a focus on F#. The first section covers functional programming history, techniques, and benefits. The second part shows how this is used in F#, covering F# syntax and some special features like Type Providers, Units of Measure, and performance compared to C#.</p> <p>The third section goes into mind-bending topics like immutable data structure implementation, currying, the y-combinator, contravariant and covariant functors, and category theory.</p>