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This question has been going through my mind quite a lot lately and since I haven't found a convincing answer to it I would like to know if other users
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In the recent years, even though OOP is still the most popular programming paradigm, functional programming…
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This question has been going through my mind quite a lot lately and since I haven't found a convincing answer to it I would like to know if other users
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In the recent years, even though OOP is still the most popular programming paradigm, functional programming…
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When would you NOT want to use functional programming? What is it not so good at?
I am more looking for disadvantages of the paradigm as a whole, not things like "not widely used", or "no good debugger available". Those answers may be correct as of now, but they deal with FP being a new concept (an…
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I recently started studying functional programming using Haskell and came upon this article on the official Haskell wiki: How to read Haskell.
The article claims that short variable names such as x, xs, and f are fitting for Haskell code, because of conciseness and abstraction. In essence, it claims…
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It seems to me that functional programming is a great thing. It eliminates state and makes it much easier to automatically make code run in parallel.
Many programmers who were first taught imperative programming styles find it very difficult to learn functional programming, because it is so different…
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As I always understood it, any change to the programs state (or anything to do with IO) is a side effect. It does not matter, whether the change occurs in a global variable or in a private field of the object the method is called on. It follows that all methods which do not return anything either…
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I am considering moving from Matlab to Python/numpy for data analysis and numerical simulations. I have used Matlab (and SML-NJ) for years, and am very comfortable in the functional environment without side effects (barring I/O), but am a little reluctant about the side effects in Python. Can people…
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I have an array of the following strcuture
struct T_info
{
char capitale[255];
char pays[255];
char commentaire[255];
};
struct T_info *tableau;
Then when I populate the array and call printf allone on each element it works fine
strcpy(tab[line].capitale, buffer);
strcpy(tab[line]…
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In my onCreateOptionsMenu() I have basically the following:
public boolean onCreateOptionsMenu(Menu menu) {
menu.add(Menu.NONE, MENU_ITEM_INSERT, Menu.NONE, R.string.item_menu_insert).setShortcut('3',
'a').setIcon(android.R.drawable.ic_menu_add);
PackageManager pm…
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I sometimes re-order the columns in my Postgres DB. Since Postgres can only add columns at the end of tables, I end up re-ordering by adding new columns at the end of the table, setting them equal to existing columns, and then dropping the original columns.
My question is: what does PostgreSQL do…
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