Comments on: State and Identity http://mentalpandiculation.com/2010/05/state-and-identity/ One Man's Attempt To Find Elegant Code Through Big Words Tue, 28 Jun 2011 01:37:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Niklaus Wirth's Ghost http://mentalpandiculation.com/2010/05/state-and-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-162 Niklaus Wirth's Ghost Wed, 12 May 2010 15:09:59 +0000 http://mentalpandiculation.com/?p=262#comment-162 <a href="#comment-160" rel="nofollow">@polypus74 </a> That's kind of the solution I was slowly coming around to so it helps to hear someone else say that. I'm writing smaller functions and more of them, trying to utilize the sequence library as much as possible. When I do that, the programs sort of write themselves, as much as they can based on my extremely novice ability. @polypus74

That’s kind of the solution I was slowly coming around to so it helps to hear someone else say that. I’m writing smaller functions and more of them, trying to utilize the sequence library as much as possible. When I do that, the programs sort of write themselves, as much as they can based on my extremely novice ability.

]]> By: polypus74 http://mentalpandiculation.com/2010/05/state-and-identity/comment-page-1/#comment-160 polypus74 Mon, 10 May 2010 20:39:30 +0000 http://mentalpandiculation.com/?p=262#comment-160 been there. a word of advice: don't think so much, and just write some programs. you are stepping into a world that is a lot simpler than the one you are coming from, so it feels a bit strange and you are wondering what you should be doing. where's the all the ceremony? how do i structure my programs? it's functional programming, so just write functions and don't worry so much about modeling what the world *is*, and think more about what the world *does*. start with your main function and work from there. chances are you won't even have to touch the concurrency primitives for most tasks. been there. a word of advice: don’t think so much, and just write some programs. you are stepping into a world that is a lot simpler than the one you are coming from, so it feels a bit strange and you are wondering what you should be doing. where’s the all the ceremony? how do i structure my programs?

it’s functional programming, so just write functions and don’t worry so much about modeling what the world *is*, and think more about what the world *does*. start with your main function and work from there. chances are you won’t even have to touch the concurrency primitives for most tasks.

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