Functional Programming You Already Know

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Argues that familiar tools already embody functional ideas: Excel as dataflow (cells re-evaluate declaratively), Python reduce and library factorials replace loops, and C++ template metaprogramming computes primes at compile time (Turing-complete). Shows small, practical code: Rob Pike’s one-page grep, C recursion to print digits, and a Unix pipeline that finds duplicate Java class names. Recommends avoiding shared mutable state via the synchronization quadrant and using message-passing like Erlang/Akka for concurrency.

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1. 0:00Introduction
2. 2:33Historical context
3. 8:03Recursion explained
4. 13:15Functional concepts in C
5. 17:04Function pointers and lambdas
6. 20:21Simplifying interfaces
7. 23:21Object-oriented functional
8. 30:10Pipelining and composition
9. 34:07Concurrency and state

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