Beauty and/or Elegance in Functional Programming

Beauty is a combination of pleasing traits, albeit subjectively perceived it still can be discussed and more or less defined. Not being exclusive to art, beauty is found in other disciplines too, such as in mathematics, and in software source code. In the software community, debates about beauty / code elegance may be implicit but they are at the heart of many concerns of modern software development. We will explore how we are using functional programming to achieve beauty in code, and how does that translate to high quality software projects.

Session length

40 minutes

Language of the presentation

English

Target audience

Beginner: No need to have prior knowledge

Who is your session intended to

People who are interested on the topic of Functional Programming and would like to know how it can help them write simple, concise code that follows solid design principles.

Speaker

Silvia Moura Pina