The Curse of the Excluded Middle.

The article discusses the need for software developers to seriously consider embracing a pure lazy functional programming with all effects explicitly surfaced in the type system using monads. Topics discussed include a single global state as an unacceptable bottleneck in a parallel/concurrent/distri...

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Published in:	Communications of the ACM Vol. 57; no. 6; pp. 50 - 56
Main Author:	MEIJER, ERIK
Format:	Article
Published:	Association for Computing Machinery Jun2014
Subjects:	Computer software development Functional programming languages Debugging Imperative programming Programming languages Computer programmers
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost