{"id":39,"date":"2013-05-01T15:36:52","date_gmt":"2013-05-01T13:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/?p=39"},"modified":"2014-03-16T23:50:41","modified_gmt":"2014-03-16T22:50:41","slug":"a-couple-of-concepts-of-efficient-programming","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/a-couple-of-concepts-of-efficient-programming\/","title":{"rendered":"A couple of concepts of efficient programming"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I am trying to use python to build a rather large software solution for use in bioinformatics, I am slowly realizing that there are lots of concepts I really need, that were never taught in my CS courses. Among them:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>What is <a title=\"Functional Programming\" href=\"http:\/\/c2.com\/cgi\/wiki?FunctionalProgramming\" target=\"_blank\">functional programming<\/a> and how it is different from object-oriented programming<\/li>\n<li>What is <a title=\"lambda calculus\" href=\"http:\/\/plato.stanford.edu\/entries\/lambda-calculus\/\" target=\"_blank\">lambda calculus<\/a><\/li>\n<li>That <a href=\"http:\/\/docs.python.org\/2\/howto\/functional.html\" target=\"_blank\">Python is a functional programming language<\/a> and that trying to use it for OO will be painful and frustrating<\/li>\n<li>How do you do to<a href=\"http:\/\/laputan.org\/mud\/\" target=\"_blank\"> program a large software solution<\/a> you would like to reuse or at least maintain later on<\/li>\n<li>What are <a title=\"Simple explanation of what closures are\" href=\"http:\/\/www.skorks.com\/2010\/05\/closures-a-simple-explanation-using-ruby\/\" target=\"_blank\">closures<\/a> are and how useful they are<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I am trying to use python to build a rather large software solution for use in bioinformatics, I am slowly realizing that there are lots of concepts I really need, that were never taught in my CS courses. Among them: What is functional programming and how it is different from object-oriented programming What is <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/a-couple-of-concepts-of-efficient-programming\/\">[&hellip;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[9],"class_list":["post-39","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prog","tag-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136,"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39\/revisions\/136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/andreikucharavy.com\/L3Cache\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}