Mainly motivation of fp for SAP-developers. The how was done in a demo... Presented at SAPTechEd Barcelona.

1. Introduc)on
to
Func)onal
Programming
Why
&
How

2. Agenda
• Mo)va)on
for
FP
• Demo…

3. Vanity
Slide
• Freelance
SAP
backend
developer
– Core:
ABAP,
Process
Integra)on,
Workflow
– Interested
in
(SAP):
HANA,
NetWeaver
Gateway,
Business
Rules,
SAPHCP,
…
– Ac)ve
community
member
&
SAP
Mentor
– Interested
in
(func)onal)
programming,
mathema)cs,
mind
games,
Machine
Learning,
…

4. Why?
Fun!

5. Why?
Improve!
• Blub
Paradox
– Bea)ng
the
Averages,
by
Paul
Graham
• Compare
with
Flatland
• ABAP
is
a
Blub!

6. Moore’s
Law

7. But,
‘our’
free
lunch
is
over…
source:
Herb
SuUer

8. Mul)-­‐core
processors

9. What
makes
concurrency
hard…
Shared
mutable
state
is
the
root
of
all
evil

10. Consequence

11. DEMO