Truly delighted to receive the ACM SIGPLAN Distinguished Educator Award. Functional programming has been a lifelong passion, and it's been great to share the fun with others over the years :-)

Implementing a Functional Language with Graph Reduction

Discovering Functional Programming Preferences While Implementing Advent of Code in AWK

The author shares their experience implementing an Advent of Code problem in AWK and discovering their preference for functional programming

A 7-line interpreter: Implementing a functional programming language in minutes

The article presents a minimal 7-line interpreter for a functional programming language, demonstrating the eval/apply design pattern from St

The Case for LEGO-Like Software Building Blocks Over Advanced Type Systems

The article argues that the software development community is overly focused on advancing type systems (like dependent types and effect syst

ACM Transactions on Programming Languages and Systems (toplas) Vol 48, Issue 2

Why Functional Programmers Should Explore Zig's Comptime Capabilities

The article evaluates the Zig programming language through the lens of functional programming, focusing on its comptime (compile-time) metap