wtfunctional/Readme.md

Title:             WTFunctional – Talk slides and examples
Author:            Oliver Rümpelein
Affiliation:       Member of F3L-Team
Quotes Language:   english
Date:              2016-05-25
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# [%Title] #

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[official homepage][wtfoff]!</div>

The talk was first held at [3. F3L-GPN][f3l] in Regensburg, on 2015-06-11. Its
target is to show how even non-functional programming languages can profit from
using functional paradigms.

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## Files ##

You may download both [the slides PDF][slides] in handout mode, and a
[source archive][examples] of the examples used during the talk.

## Structure ##

The talk is split into three main parts:

Part One
:   deals with functional programming in general. What are its benefits?
:   Afterwards, the main ideas behind it get shown using [Haskell][haskell].

Part Two
:   is all about using some of the mentioned ideas in [Python][python].
:   The focus lies on getting a feeling for functional programming, using a
    language that is heavily influenced by those designs.

Part Three
:   tries to transfer those ideas to C++.
:   It also deals with the weaknesses and advantages of the modern C++11/14,
    and gives a preview of some features in C++17/20/22

## Pages ##

There are two main-pages for this talk. One is my [homepage][wtfoff], the other
one is the [GitLab-server of F3L][f3lgit] which contains the whole example and
slide sources.

## Compiling ##

If any errors occur, please [drop me a mail][mailto].

### Slides ###

Unfortunately, the slides have quite a lot of dependencies. You need the
following:

 * A working instance of [LuaLaTeX][lualatex] (some decent [texlive-distro][texlive] should suffice),
 * [Pygments][pygments] up-and-running (usually in the repositories as
   'python-pygmetize' or so),
 * a working installation of the [minted][minted] package for latex (once
   again, texlive should be enough), and
 * the two fonts [Inconsolata G][inconsolata-g] and [Fira Sans][fira] installed,
 * not to talk of biber with biblatex.
 
Then, compile using 

```
lualatex -shell-escape wtfunctional
biber wtfunctional
lualatex -shell-escape wtfunction
```

### Examples ###

Exmaple 00_dafunc.cpp is not that important, and should build with any decent C++-compiler.

For the haskell-example, use `ghci`, then `:load 01_haskell.hs`. The functions provided are:

 * extract (≅ fst)
 * addto
 * mfold (≅ foldl)
 
02_python.py can be executed using `python`, or inspected using `python -m`. It
provides:

 * a debug-function usable as decorator
 * a bubblesort-implementation using functional paradigms.
 
03_cpp.cpp needs a compiler capable of C++11. It shows code- and
runtime-examples for `for_each`, `transform` and `accumulate`.

04_cpp17.cpp needs a compiler capable of C++17-folds, `gcc` or `clang` should
do. Then compile using the option `std=c++1z`

## License ##

This is licensed under MIT-License. For the exact formulation, see License.txt.

[examples]: https://www.pheerai.de/assets/wtf_examples.tar.gz
[f3l]: https://www.f3l.de
[f3lgit]: https://git.f3l.de/pheerai/wtfunctional
[fira]: https://github.com/mozilla/Fira
[haskell]: https://www.haskell.org
[inconsolata-g]: http://leonardo-m.livejournal.com/77079.html
[lualatex]: http://luatex.org
[mailto]: mailto:oli_r@fg4f.de
[minted]: http://github.com/gpoore/minted
[pygments]: http://pygments.org/
[python]: https://python.org/
[slides]: https://www.pheerai.de/assets/wtf_slides.pdf
[texlive]: https://www.tug.org/texlive/
[wtfoff]: https://www.pheerai.de/wtf/

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