While I don't love his specific strawman proposals (eg, replace "Commutative" with "OrderDoesn'tMatter"), I think he's basically onto something here. Spelling out what these concepts *mean* in practice a little more clearly (and his table of examples is wonderfully clear) would probably lower a major barrier to entry into functional programming...
Replace fancy-pants terminology
While I don't love his specific strawman proposals (eg, replace "Commutative" with "OrderDoesn'tMatter"), I think he's basically onto something here. Spelling out what these concepts *mean* in practice a little more clearly (and his table of examples is wonderfully clear) would probably lower a major barrier to entry into functional programming...
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Running headless browser tests using ScalaTest
[Continuing the previous story, basically. Again, only interesting to the Scala-using crowd. None of this is rocket science, but since I had to…
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Getting Chrome working under ScalaTest
[Very Typesafe-stack-specific, but having spent the time figuring it out...] Nothing to brighten my day than managing to solve what briefly looked…
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Presentation by me -- End-to-End Scala: A Case Study
For those who might be interested, I'm giving a talk next Wednesday at the Boston Scala Meetup, titled "End-to-End Scala: a Case Study in…
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