On a scale of 1-10 , would you recommend this book for someone who considers themself a “working man programmer” and not really reading for the theory or intellectual stimulation.
Ive tried reading functional programming books b4 and I have gotten some gems out of them, my fav is building functions that follow 3 steps.
- the fn should only return a single thing
- a fn calculates its return based on its arguments values
- the function cannot mutate existing values
Those rules has helped me to build things cleanly like lego, but I will admit I rarely think of fp and elixir isnt as strict as something like haskell when it comes to fp, you can pretty much hack your way around thanks to the actor model and also otp laying alot of ground work so you cant really mess up. Sure with fp writing declarative code is a dream, things being immutable by default is also great. but what is the bigger picture of getting more in tune with fp for elixir? I rarely hear the elixir comm focusing on FP culture
I am a bit turned off by the fact we are using an external library to learn said concepts, does that mean using elixir primitive’s to build up such machinery in a normal setting, is ehh ceremonial and not done often? I am most likely going to buy it cause I like the cover & its 30 bucks, but can you give me like a cool example that would wow me away and also tie it with the actor model
