I am trying to wrap my head around functional programming.

[thegnuguy@fosstodon.org]

I am trying to wrap my head around functional programming. I know what it as at perhaps a middle school educational level. I want to dive more into it. #scheme

[craigbro@infosec.exchange]

@thegnuguy It's alot of fun. I suggest SICP and The Lilttle Schemer as good stating points for advancing your knowledge, specifically around first-order functions, and building common programming abstractions out of functions.

There is another branch of "functional" programming, which is purely functional data structures. Also known as immutable data structures. I think #clojure is perhaps the cleanest expression this that is adjacent to #scheme.

Experiencing the wins you get from performant immutable data structures, combined with structuring your programs using functions, and using functions as first-order values, and then learning how to apply those in more modern distributed system contexts, is eye-opening, and will change the way you think about, and build software.