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Hugh F D Jackson
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Hugh F D Jackson's personal blog at hughfdjackson.com covers programming and web. Since 2012, 7 different Hacker News readers have linked it 7 times, most often “Why Currying Helps”. The last post was in 2022, but the archive is still widely read.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link these JavaScript posts on currying, partial application and functional reuse. One commenter says a post helped them understand currying, and another cites a later post that revisits pro-currying claims.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Helping small engineering teams tame big data sets
Most-linked posts?
- Why Currying Helps2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2014-06-19
What Hacker News says?
"A programmer’s pipe-dream is to write code, and be able to use it repeatedly with little effort. It’s expressive because you write in a way that expresses what is needed, and it’s reuse because.. well, you’re reusing. What more could you want? Curry can help.": http://hughfdjackson.com/javascript/why-curry-helps/
Comment linking /javascript/why-curry-helps/
on “Lodash v3.0.0”Submitted Jslint Is Not A Code Quality Tool For 3rd Party Code as a story · 29 points
HN discussionHere's a nice write-up that originally helped me understand currying: https://hughfdjackson.com/javascript/why-curry-helps/ Basically a curried function could be described nested series of partially applied functions(one argument per step). On a side note to me this article is a bit on the heavy side when it comes to conveying the message. For one thing partial application should be explained first.
Comment linking /javascript/why-curry-helps/
on “Currying vs. Partial Application (2015)”Submitted Does Curry Help? as a story · 4 points
HN discussionThis reminds me of a blog post (about currying specifically) from an ardent FP proponent that I picked up on HN not long ago, where he back-pedals (his own word) from a much-shared pro-currying in JS article: https://hughfdjackson.com/javascript/does-curry-help/?utm_so... On a personal note, immutability is fine, but doing it in Javascript comes at a cost and it always feels like I'm fighting the system (have to dee…
Comment linking /javascript/does-curry-help/?utm_source=ESnextNews.com&utm_medium=Weekly%20Newsletter&utm_campaign=Week%206
on “Introduction to Functional Programming in JavaScript (Part 1)”Submitted JavaScript currying with the curry library as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Why Currying Helps as a story · 1 points
HN discussion