Eric Normand

ERIC NORMAND is an experienced functional programmer, trainer, speaker, and writer on all things functional programming. He hails from New Orleans. He started programming in Lisp in 2000. He creates Clojure training material at PurelyFunctional.tv. He also consults with companies to use functional programming to better serve business objectives. You can find him speaking internationally at programming conferences. His writing, speaking, training, and consulting can be found at LispCast.com

books by Eric Normand

Exploring Functional Programming
  • December 2021
  • ISBN 9781633439719
  • 88 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription

Exploring Functional Programming features four chapters from Manning books, hand-picked by author and functional programming expert Eric Normand. In them, you’ll discover the major distinction between FP and other programming paradigms, see the FP mindset applied to real-world problems, and explore the “irresistible appeal” of function purity. You’ll also examine the benefits of using immutable values as well as the dangers of mutability and how to conquer them.

Grokking Simplicity
  • April 2021
  • ISBN 9781617296208
  • 592 pages
Included with a Manning Online subscription
  • printed in black & white
  • Available translations: Complex Chinese, Korean, Russian, Serbian, Simplified Chinese

The book also teaches you to solve the complex timing bugs that inevitably creep into asynchronous and multithreaded code. In ad­vanced sections of the book you learn how composable abstractions help avoid repeating code and open up new levels of expressivity.