Simon Willison’s Weblog

jed’s fab. Spectacular web framework for Node.js which, despite using nothing but regular JavaScript, has syntax that is easily confused with Lisp. General consensus at work is that truly understanding how this works is a crucial step on the path to JavaScript enlightenment.

# 18th May 2010, 6:50 pm / functional, javascript, lisp, node, recovered, fab

Underscore.js. A new library of functional programming primitives for JavaScript—each, map, all, any, inject, detect etc. Unlike some similar libraries this one doesn’t extend the built-in objects, instead opting to bind the new functions to the underscore symbol. A jQuery-style noConflict() option is available if even that is too much namespace pollution for you.

# 28th October 2009, 5:08 pm / documentcloud, functional, javascript, jquery, noconflict, underscore

What Python looks like naked. Michal Wallace has been doing some really interesting work writing purely functional code in Python. His latest experiment replaces all of the basic Python statements with equivalent functions.

# 10th January 2007, 11:22 pm / functional, michal-wallace, python

A General Theory of Programming Language Relativity. Functional languages have clearer levels of indirection.

# 12th December 2006, 8:56 am / functional, programming