Interesting Snippets from 2014-08-04

• facebook/immutable-js · GitHub

  Immutable data cannot be changed once created, leading to much simpler application development and enabling techniques from functional programming such as lazy evaluation. Immutable JS provides a lazy Sequence, allowing efficient chaining of sequence methods like map and filter without creating intermediate representations.

• Introduction :: Eloquent JavaScript

  Casual computing has become much more widespread in the past twenty years, and language-based interfaces, which once were the default way in which people interacted with computers, have largely been replaced with graphical interfaces. But they are still there, if you know where to look. One such language, JavaScript, is built into just about every web browser, and thus available on just about every consumer device. This book intends to make you familiar enough with this language to be able to make a computer do what you want.

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