Android: The Land That Python Forgot

Re:Android: The Land That Python Forgot by profquail on Sunday November 10, 2013 @09:12AM (#6706460)

If you're familiar with C#, Real World Functional Programming: With Examples in F# and C# [1] is an excellent resource for learning how and when to use composition over inheritance.

[1]: http://www.amazon.com/Real-World-Functional-Programming-With...

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Re:Android: The Land That Python Forgot by voltagex_ on Sunday November 10, 2013 @06:18PM (#6708940)

I thought composition vs inheritance was strictly an OO, not a functional thing?

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Re:Android: The Land That Python Forgot by profquail on Sunday November 10, 2013 @07:41PM (#6709247)

Functional programming usually leans towards composition, and OO programming towards inheritance. "Hybrid" functional languages, like F# and Scala, allow you to use both styles, mixing them in whatever way is most useful for the particular problem you're solving; "pure" functional languages, like Haskell don't offer OO-style inheritance, since composition is a better fit for combining side-effect free ("pure") functions.

tl;dr -- Composition is to functional programming as inheritance is to OO programming.

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Re:Android: The Land That Python Forgot by voltagex_ on Sunday November 10, 2013 @08:51PM (#6709485)

Yeesh, $40 for the ePub directly from Manning, or $33 from Amazon for the print edition with a free ePub.

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Re:Android: The Land That Python Forgot by profquail on Monday November 11, 2013 @08:34AM (#6711471)

There are a few chapters of the book online for free at MSDN, and if you're going to buy the book, they also have a coupon code: http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/vstudio/hh314518%28v...

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