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Monica McGuigan, a Scala programmer at JP Morgan, talks with Richard about her experiences learning Roc with a Scala background. They get into topics like how language design affects beginners and experts, what parts of functional programming are easier and harder to learn than others, and how language designers inform their design decisions.
Support Software Unscripted on Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoftwareUnscripted
Monica's chapter on JSON decoders: https://github.com/roc-lang/book-of-examples/pull/68
Grapheme clusters: https://unicode.org/glossary/#extended_grapheme_cluster
Roc's string operations: https://www.roc-lang.org/builtins/Str
Talk: The Functional Purity Inference Plan: https://youtu.be/42TUAKhzlRI?si=TwxYoqMgh0UXQLfn
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Monica McGuigan, a Scala programmer at JP Morgan, talks with Richard about her experiences learning Roc with a Scala background. They get into topics like how language design affects beginners and experts, what parts of functional programming are easier and harder to learn than others, and how language designers inform their design decisions.
Support Software Unscripted on Patreon: https://patreon.com/SoftwareUnscripted
Monica's chapter on JSON decoders: https://github.com/roc-lang/book-of-examples/pull/68
Grapheme clusters: https://unicode.org/glossary/#extended_grapheme_cluster
Roc's string operations: https://www.roc-lang.org/builtins/Str
Talk: The Functional Purity Inference Plan: https://youtu.be/42TUAKhzlRI?si=TwxYoqMgh0UXQLfn
Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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