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99Professor Frisby's Mostly Adequate Guide to Functional Programming</a >
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13+ ## What makes Prof. Frisby's course and book awesome?
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15+ Both course and book amazingly manage to avoid suffering from the two widespread diseases when explaining abstract functional concepts:
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21+ - The second disease is to bring complete nontrivial real world examples relying on all technical details involved,
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25+ Professor Frisby masterfully manages to navigate the reader through convincing real world examples
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1231## Running Examples
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