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"Controlling Time and Space: understanding the many formulations of FRP" by Evan Czaplicki
Strange Loop Conference
Evan Czaplicki's Strange Loop 2014 talk surveys the many formulations of functional reactive programming and how they relate historically and theoretically. It then shows how Elm's variant enables hot-swapping and its time-traveling debugger.
HN people point to it as the clearest explanation of what FRP actually means and how its flavors differ.
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