Posts on Quora

Sometimes, I am inspired to post answers on Quora. Many of these relate to Scala or functional programming in general, so I will try to list them here, in reverse chronological order:

• What are the key ingredients that make functional programming distinct from object-oriented or imperative programming?
• Isn't a monad just admitting that functional programming isn't useful?
• Which objects in Scala are mutable which are immutable and why does it matter?
• What are typeclasses in Scala, and how are they useful?
• Do you need to know any Java classes to be a Scala master?
• What is the apply function in Scala?
• How overrated is functional programming?
• Is it a good idea or a bad idea to mix OOP and functional programming, i.e., OCaml and Scala?
• When is recursion slower than iteration?
• Can you explain recursion intuitively?
• What is the advantage of using Scala over other functional programming languages?
• Is coding sorting algorithms different in functional programming?
• What are use cases when functional programming should almost always be chosen over object oriented?

There are more. I may add some of the earlier ones at a later time. Apparently, some of these links point to all answers to the question. You may just have to look for mine (or compare them all--even better).