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An Open-Source Sandbox For Increasing The Accessibility Of Functional Programming To The Bioinformatics And Scientific Communities, Matthew Fenwick, Colbert Sesanker, Jay Vyas, Michael R. Gryk

UCHC Articles - Research

Scientists are continually faced with the need to express complex mathematical notions in code. The renaissance of functional languages such as LISP and Haskell is often credited to their ability to implement complex data operations and mathematical constructs in an expressive and natural idiom. The slow adoption of functional computing in the scientific community does not, however, reflect the congeniality of these fields. Unfortunately, the learning curve for adoption of functional programming techniques is steeper than that for more traditional languages in the scientific community, such as Python and Java, and this is partially due to the relative sparseness of …