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I think JavaScript should be the perfect language for explaining these concepts. Many programmers understand JavaScript, and it has higher-order functions. And

I think JavaScript should be the perfect language for explaining these concepts. Many programmers understand JavaScript, and it has higher-order functions. And many programmers use JavaScript so they could easily start adopting this mechanism in their actual programs.

choeger 7y ago
But it lacks ADTs. And defunctionalization without ADTs is way more complicated to explain due to the necessary boilerplate.
- garethrowlands 7y ago
  It might be easier in Typescript, which at least has a type system that can say or.