If you're a software developer, something interesting has been happening in your field lately. Mainstream programming languages are starting to gain features from what used to be a decidedly academic domain: so-called functional programming.
Now, I'm sure you are a programmer just like me, who works in C or C++ or Java or Python or Ruby or Javascript or, God help you, PHP. And also just like me, you probably spend much of your free time reading math books.
What? Oh, right, that's not normal - I keep forgetting. The point is, more and more, languages that you actually use are picking up some rather theoretical ideas from computer science, and incorporating them very directly into the syntax of the language...
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