Author Archives: javifdev

About javifdev

Functional Programming enthusiast, holds a M.Sc. in Computer Science from UPM, currently working as Software Engineer at Habla Computing.

Functional APIs: an OOP approach to FP

Posted on June 26, 2017

In the series of posts about the essence of functional programming, we’ve already seen how we can build purely declarative programs using GADTs. This is a picture of what we got (using more standard cats/scalaz data types): This program above … Continue reading →

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From “Hello, world!” to “Hello, monad!” (Part II/III)

Posted on January 9, 2017

In the first part of this series, we set forth the essence of functional programming, namely, being declarative. This was illustrated with the ubiquitous “Hello, world!” example, a ridiculously simple program which, nonetheless, allowed us to introduce the major concepts … Continue reading →

Posted in Embedded DSLs, functional programming, Scala | 1 Comment