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A good read, I especially like the parts about error handling and maps/applicatives. They are well-illustrated and tackle some difficult common problems I had shortly after I started using functional languages.

The part about functors/monads/monoids is also nice, although I feel like it would be better with the accompanying talk to bind it together a bit more.



By the way, I do think pattern matching could have been discussed more extensively. Pattern matching is one of the reasons I love functional programming so much, since combined with algebraic types they can be much more expressive than imperative control-flow statements (e.g. if-else). For programmers that are used to imperative programming, discovering the power of pattern matching can be quite a hurdle.




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