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In the last post, we saw how to use the task function to repeat tasks periodically or listen for asynchronous events. Now let's demonstrate it using a little example - a simple chat demo app. (This example was also included in the pil64-version of P...
Before continuing with the "Mobile Development" series, I decided to write about the task function, because it is a very useful function as we will see in the mobile app series. Realizing repetitive tasks with task With help of task, we can schedule...
In functional languages, we care a lot about the so-called "side effects" of functions. Based on the definition of Eric Normand, a function with side effect could also be called an action, while a function without side effekt is a calculation (you ca...
In one of the last posts, we discussed functions to add or remove items from lists with push, pop and so on. Today, we will see how to apply functions to lists with mapping functions. What is mapping? In mathematics, the term mapping is often used a...
Writing code in PicoLisp means to think a lot in lists and list structures. This is because lists are one of only three data types in PicoLisp, the other two being numbers and symbols. So, every complex construct (like stacks, functions, trees, graph...
In the next posts, I want to talk a little bit more about functional programming as a concept - what it is, and what features of PicoLisp make it a functional language. As a little warm-up, let's talk today about the curry function which incorporates...
