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Anonymous recursive functions in Racket

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h4ch1 ◴[07 Sep 25 00:19 UTC] No.45154112[source]▶
Tangential, but I've been wanting to dive back into FP for quite sometime; for context I used Haskell at a payments corp ~10 years back, working mostly with Typescript, Zig and Nim for the past couple of years, realizing I am basically trying to do FP in most of these languages.

Is Racket a good language to pick up and re-learn my concepts + implement some tools? Or are there some other languages that would be better to both brush up and learn the syntax of, I do not want to fight the syntax but rather express functions as seamlessly as I can.

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humanfromearth9 ◴[07 Sep 25 09:35 UTC] No.45156733[source]▶
You could try Purescript, with the book¹ written by Charles Scalfani.

It focuses exclusively on FP and does not deviate from it.

¹ https://leanpub.com/fp-made-easier/

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1. h4ch1 ◴[10 Sep 25 03:57 UTC] No.45193058[source]▶
Thank you for the recommendation, I actually had some experience with Purescript, but I have been reading this book for the past two days, and it has been invaluable. Seems perfect for what I was trying to accomplish.

Thanks again!