R&D software engineer at Alcatel-Lucent Submarine Networks, author of Functional Programming in Java (Manning Publications) and double bass jazz player
Pierre-Yves's articles
Lessons in Abstraction: What FP Can Teach OOP
By Pierre-Yves Saumont,
Abstraction is the key to tenable code bases. Where OOP eyes abstraction with suspicion, functional programming pushes it as far as possible.
What Is Referential Transparency?
By Pierre-Yves Saumont,
Referential transparency is a tool to help programmers reason about their programs and make them safer, and easier to test and to maintain.
Types Are Mightier than Tests
By Pierre-Yves Saumont,
Functional programming can dramatically reduce the need for testing by using types to reduce the number of possible implementation choices.
Lazy Computations in Java with a Lazy Type
By Pierre-Yves Saumont,
Java is known as a mostly strict language. It's useful, however, to implement a 'Lazy' type for lazy initialization, deferred computations, etc.
In Praise of Laziness
By Pierre-Yves Saumont,
Java is known as a strict language regarding references and method arguments. It's however possible (and very useful) to implement laziness in types.