Tag Archives: Functional Languages: Ocaml, Haskell

A couple of guys at work are talking right now about how great JQuery is. Their favorite part? “Chainability” (where you just apply function after function after function) and “each” / “map“. New stuff, apparently coming out of “scripting language like Groovy and Rails”. Or, y’know, like ML or Lisp… I’m just glad to see [...]

A method that takes the non-null values in the provided list. Was: private static final <A> List<A> filterNullsFrom(final List<A> list) { final List<A> out = new ArrayList<A>(list.size()); for(final A elt : list) { if(elt != null) { out.add(elt); } } return out; } Is: import static org.apache.commons.collections.CollectionUtils.select; import static org.apache.commons.collections.PredicateUtils.notNullPredicate; … private static final <A> [...]

They’ve accepted my hands-on proposal: “Agile Development Using a Functional Language”. WTF? I figured that was a certain bomb. I was just pitching it out there as a lark. Even one of the reviewers said “probably will be interesting to some attendees, but i expect small turnout.” I already had some research done for the [...]