All this talk about f(x) being a map between sets of values isn't just an esoteric exercise -- it's directly applicable to the work of day-to-day programmers. The next JavaScript code snippet ...

Built on top of Erlang, Elixir makes it easier to write good functional programming code and harder to mess it up. Here's a first look at this language on the rise.

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