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The banana tag on WindowsForum.com covers two distinct topics: banana art and functional programming. One thread showcases Japanese artist Keisuke Yamada, who carves detailed sculptures into bananas using a toothpick and spoon, including a face of Elvis. The sculptures are photographed and eaten before the fruit rots. Another thread features Dr. Ralf Lämmel's C9 Lecture series, where "bananas" is functional programming slang for folds, specifically catamorphic recursion schemes used in higher-order list processing, as seen in Bird-Meertens Formalism. These discussions highlight creative and technical uses of the term banana.
This a-peeling sculpture is sure to make you go bananas - with the face of Elvis given a fruity new approach.
Japanese artist Keisuke Yamada has also sculpted Davey Jones from Pirates of The Caribbean, as well as a dragon and ghoulish skulls.
The detailed works of fruity art are carved...
Dr. Ralf Lämmel returns for an exploration of folds, aka bananas. This is lecture 5 in his C9 Lecture series covering advanced functional programming topics. Welcome back, Ralf! We're so happy to have you here!
Why bananas, Ralf?
Banana is functional programming slang for "fold"—an application...