I like tools. I learning about them, learning to use them and simply discovering them. So, my current topics of interest are an assortment of languages and a discipline. The discipline is "Functional programming" - that lead off to a couple of languages. Lately, I have been learning Ruby. I like its pure "object-orientedness" and its conciseness and its ability to support functional programming - if you have the discipline. Lambda's intrigued me, but I felt that I wasn't getting the whole picture. Then I read about LINQ - a project based on my bread and butter language, C#. LINQ adds Language Integrated Query capabilities and set handling features, basically to C# itself. Well, how do they do this? OK, Lambda's. In C# 3.0. Well there's something I didn't know about, but I'm starting to see something important take shape. From there I followed my nose and ended up looking at many neat things. I have tripped over a number of functional program
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