OSCON 2013: "Functional Thinking" - Neal Ford

[@ChristopheBessis]

"life is too short for malloc"

[@KiffinGish]

Great stuff, thanks.

[@JaihindhReddy]

In the first 2 min, I see a quelling blade, heard axe and saw timber saw's saw. Too much dota.

[@mishasawangwan6652]

LOL

[@biomechomegapsi]

Damn ... that was a talk. Thumbs up.

[@ericanderson3879]

here is link to article at IBM developer works, functional thinking, part 1 www.ibm.com/developerworks/java/library/j-ft1/index.html

[@jmoney1941]

link to the language poster?

[@judo-rob5197]

Thanks. Sure is a lot to think about here.

[@TimGilbertCanada]

I like how the speaker mentioned about reducing complex data structures into common structures in order to perform Higher Order manipulations. That is an easy to understand description of the approach. Nice talk.

[@nikolaikalashnikov4253]

28:51 Quote: "...suggests a filtering operation..." 29:19 To me, true should mean that the filter kicks in and stops or blocks the element... in other words, filters it out... But the code clearly shows that true means "filtering-in" or into the collection. Perhaps they should do away with the ambiguous filter() function and replace it with more verbose functions: filterIn() & filterOut() ?

[@nikolaikalashnikov4253]

34:15 ok, when he used Groovy, he refactored the ambiguous name of filter() to findAll(), which is more clear.

[@ArvindDevaraj1]

self.note - 34:09 Groovy example sums it up

[@nikolaikalashnikov4253]

5:00 Quote: "Then you have also practical offshoots, the ?ford-jills? of the late 1990s [....]" Can someone translate "ford-jills" for me plz ? What did he say ? What is he talking about ?

[@seanflanigan7]

I think he said 4GLs: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth-generation_programming_language

[@rodelias9378]

Great talk. Thanks Neal.

[@charleszhao2915]

nice talk

[@honkskillet]

Javascript WTF. Who woulda thought?!

[@tpflugkn]

4 minutes in the ever animating slides are already hurting my brain. I do like the content though. Just the slides are god awful.