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Functional Programming with a Mainstream Language

Presented by Sadek Drobi on Oct 22, 2009

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.NET,
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LINQ ,
Functional Programming ,
C# ,
QCon London 2009 ,
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Summary
Sadek Drobi shows how he applied functional programming principles to a real-life project which needed to meet certain performance requirements. He shares the lessons learnt on using mutation, laziness, recursion, functions, monads, list comprehensions and parallelization in an attempt to achieve a functional domain model.

Bio
Sadek Drobi is a software engineer specialized in design and implementation of enterprise applications. He is a programming languages evangelist at Valtech France (www.valtech.fr), where he works as consultant and tech lead, currently working on a research proposal relative to language oriented programming and multiparadigm design. He maintains a technical blog at www.sadekdrobi.com.

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WPF Monad by Sadek Drobi Posted Oct 25, 2009 4:31 AM
strictly speaking... by Gabor Ratky Posted Nov 5, 2009 2:01 PM
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    WPF Monad

    Oct 25, 2009 4:31 AM by Sadek Drobi

    Here is the View Monad hosted on codeplex viewmonad.codeplex.com/ and a post discussing it sadekdrobi.com/2009/06/26/a-monad-in-c-for-simp...

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    strictly speaking...

    Nov 5, 2009 2:01 PM by Gabor Ratky

    It's called 'eager' loading, not 'strict' loading. Otherwise interesting session!

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