Functional Interpreters and You
Phrases like "free monads" and "finally tagless" get thrown around in the Scala community like they're going out of fashion. But what do they mean and why are they so popular?
In this talk we will discuss "interpreters", an essential functional programming pattern that underpins these terms. We will show how any problem in functional programming can be described using the interpreter pattern, and how modelling things this way naturally gives rise to abstractions like the free monad and encodings like finally tagless.
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Functional Interpreters and You
Dave Gurnell
Dave is a developer, trainer, and partner at underscore.io. He has spent over a decade programming, speaking at conferences, and writing books on functional programming.
Phrases like "free monads" and "finally tagless" get thrown around in the Scala community like they're going out of fashion. But what do they mean and why are they so popular?
In this talk we will discuss "interpreters", an essential functional programming pattern that underpins these terms. We will show how any problem in functional programming can be described using the interpreter pattern, and how modelling things this way naturally gives rise to abstractions like the free monad and encodings like finally tagless.
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- Scala eXchange London 2019 (in London on 12th - 13th December 2019)
- Functional Interpreters and You (SkillsCast recorded in December 2018)
- Real-time Systems with Spark Streaming and Kafka (in London on 30th September - 1st October 2019)
- Real World Kotlin Development Workshop (in London on 22nd - 23rd October 2019)
- Haskell eXchange 2019 (in London on 10th - 11th October 2019)
- Clojure eXchange 2019 (in London on 2nd - 3rd December 2019)
- Keynote by Holly Cummins on Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs: Cloud Surprises for the Java Developer (in London on 17th September 2019)
- F#unctional Londoners September (in London on 18th September 2019)
- The Last Frontier and Beyond (SkillsCast recorded in August 2019)
- Why API Design Matters, and Why Yours Sucks! (and mine sucks too!) (SkillsCast recorded in June 2019)
Thanks to our sponsors
Functional Interpreters and You
Dave Gurnell
Dave is a developer, trainer, and partner at underscore.io. He has spent over a decade programming, speaking at conferences, and writing books on functional programming.