Sequences of partial reductions in Elm

In my previous article I derived the calculation for passive income from invested assets and demonstrated a small calculator. It struck me that there was a slight delay in the case of high annual numbers. The cause of the delay lies in my implementation of the formula $$\sum_{k = 1}^{m-1} \frac {1} {\prod_ {t = 1} ^ {k} w_t}.$$ As described in more detail in the article mentioned above, $w_t$ denotes the relative market value in the month $t$ and $m$ the total number of months....

June 1, 2021

First steps towards dynamic web apps in Elm

Some time ago I was able to listen to the episode We’re Teaching Functional Programming Wrong of the podcast Corecursive. Richard Feldman tells of a purely functional language with which you can actually create dynamic web pages. It is not even necessary to understand what a Monad is. Since I consider object-oriented programming to be overrated*The talk [Free your Functions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLDT1lDOsb4) by Klaus Iglberger highlights some practical aspects my point of view....

April 19, 2021