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This project was interesting. Recently, I've been digging into the functional programming paradigm. This is one of my first tries at it. I've been doing OOP until recently, but this project really was impressive to me. The whole implementation took about nine hours. Functional programming is much less convoluted. I spent more time programming than deciding on a good name for a certain identifier.

Not only is functional programming more efficient, but I can also see that it's much less tedious to write automated tests for. I only have to take care of the local scope of the function I am writing a test for; there is no need to deal with the parent's inherited mess or even any parent's mere state. I just have to write the test for the function.

I have scraped the Cambridge Dictionary to collect the data.

The project is licensed under MIT at:

https://github.com/eeriemyxi/novi

https://git.envs.net/myxi/novi

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[โ€“] Johannes 1 points 8 months ago (1 children)

If you're interested in functional programming you could try haskell. It has a reputation for a steep learning curve but it was worth learning for me.

[โ€“] [email protected] 0 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago)

Oh yeah, I had given that a try, but the installation was too huge. It took like 2 GB. The dependecies were huge as well. But maybe it'd be less on Ubuntu. I will give it a shot again. I heard that language doesn't have loops; I guess you've got to be good with recursion to get good at it lol.

Or maybe people rely on map like function of Python.