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This project was interesting. Recently, I’ve been digging into the functional programming paradigm. This is one of my first tries at it. I’ve been doing OOP until recently, but this project really was impressive to me. The whole implementation took about nine hours. Functional programming is much less convoluted. I spent more time programming than deciding on a good name for a certain identifier.
Not only is functional programming more efficient, but I can also see that it’s much less tedious to write automated tests for. I only have to take care of the local scope of the function I am writing a test for; there is no need to deal with the parent’s inherited mess or even any parent’s mere state. I just have to write the test for the function.
I have scraped the Cambridge Dictionary to collect the data.
The project is licensed under MIT at:
I think desktop GUI toolkits are a pretty good use case for object-oriented design, mainly because mapping window/widget families onto class hierarchies is straightforward.
That’s not to say that a good functional design is impossible; it’s just not particularly obvious.