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Learn Bosque Programming

By : Sebastian Kaczmarek, Joel Ibaceta
Book Image

Learn Bosque Programming

By: Sebastian Kaczmarek, Joel Ibaceta

Overview of this book

Bosque is a new high-level programming language inspired by the impact of structured programming in the 1970s. It adopts the TypeScript syntax and ML semantics and is designed for writing code that is easy to reason about for humans and machines. With this book, you'll understand how Bosque supports high productivity and cloud-first development by removing sources of accidental complexity and introducing novel features. This short book covers all the language features that you need to know to work with Bosque programming. You'll learn about basic data types, variables, functions, operators, statements, and expressions in Bosque and become familiar with advanced features such as typed strings, bulk algebraic data operations, namespace declarations, and concept and entity declarations. This Bosque book provides a complete language reference for learning to program with Bosque and understanding the regularized programming paradigm. You'll also explore real-world examples that will help you to reinforce the knowledge you've acquired. Additionally, you'll discover more advanced topics such as the Bosque project structure and contributing to the project. By the end of this book, you'll have learned how to configure the Bosque environment and build better and reliable software with this exciting new open-source language.
Table of Contents (22 chapters)
1
Section 1: Introduction
5
Section 2: The Bosque Language Overview
10
Section 3: Practicing Bosque
15
Section 4: Exploring Advanced Features

Chapter 10: Iterative Processing and Recursion

I bet the first time you read that there are no loops in Bosque, you were confused. And you probably were even more confused when you read that there are operations on concepts such as List that look like they are doing some iterative work. It wouldn't come as a surprise to me if you were asking yourself, What is going on here? Does Bosque support iteration or not? In this chapter, we will shed some light on this topic as well as recursion. First, we will learn why (and if) there are no loops available and how we can solve various problems related to iteration in Bosque. Next, we will take a closer look at recursion and restrictions that Bosque sets to simplify recursive calls in our programs – we will simply recall and slightly expand the knowledge that you gained in Chapter 3, Bosque Key Features. We will also cover the NSIterate namespace and its implemented methods.

Here is a list of topics that we are going to cover...