Learn Functional Programming

What is this?

My goal with this project is to make an approachable and interactive tool for playing around with and understanding scary-looking LISP-style languages. This is meant to be the first stepping stone for future self-study.

This is the followup project from my Ludum Dare 45 educational game Magic Shepherd, which was a proof-of-concept for myself that was also extremely confusing, hard to understand, and very restricted. I want this project to be the upgraded version.

Why make this in the first place?

Mainstream languages like Python and C# have been using more and more powerful features usually only found in functional programming languages.

Fancy features like map-reduce, higher order functions, and lambda functions have existed in LISP-style functional languages for decades. Many of these older, powerful, yet impractical languages were originally inspired by the scarily and pretentiously named "Lambda Calculus".

By understanding LISP-style languages and how they relate to Lambda Calculus, you would then understand fancy functional features better and be a more dangerous programmer.

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