What is a higher-order function?

Higher-order functions are used a lot in functional programming. They are functions that take other functions as arguments or return functions as return values, or both. You’ll probably be familiar with map, filter, and reduce, which are higher-order functions. In this episode, we go kind of deep on them.

Show Notes

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What is The Eric Normand Podcast?

An off-the-cuff stream of Functional Programming ideas, skills, patterns, and news from Functional Programming expert Eric Normand of LispCast. Formerly known as Thoughts on Functional Programming.