BlogHide Resteemsotaviomacedo (25)in programming • 8 years agoNested types and function compositionIn Scala and other typed functional languages – notably Haskell – monads are structures that allow the programmer to take a sequence of computations, each defined for a certain context, and chain…otaviomacedo (25)in computer-science • 8 years agoFrom loop invariants to recursion invariantsUntil very recently, the major commercial programming languages were based on the idea of update in place. C, C++, Pascal, Java etc presuppose that the way to solve a programming problem is to have…