Happy Path Programming
Bruce Eckel & James Ward
4.7from 47 ratings
- 120
- Episodes
- 23
- Transcribed
- 47
- Ratings
- Daily
- Cadence
- 2020
- First episode
- 16K
- YouTube views
About Happy Path Programming
No-frills discussions between Bruce Eckel and James Ward about programming, what it is, and what it should be. Buy the Happy Path Programming t-shirt: https://happy-path.printify.me/products
- Publisher
- Bruce Eckel & James Ward
- Category
- technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 13 Sept 2020
- Latest episode
- 3 Aug 2026
Latest episodes
23 of 120 episodes have a transcript.
3 Aug 2026TRANSCRIPT
#121 Effect Oriented Python with Sune Debel
2 Jun 2026TRANSCRIPT
#120 Aver AI-Native Programming Language with Szymon Teżewski
24 Jan 2026TRANSCRIPT
#119 FP Reaches the Masses with Paul Snively
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#121 Effect Oriented Python with Sune Debel
Published 3 Aug 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] And I don't know if that is technically impossible, but at least that's not how Python generators are built. So in the case of, let's say a repeat, like in... Because you have a repeat. Like how you would do a repeat or a retry on a generator. Yeah, so that brings me to kind of the other limitation of generators is that they are... They are stateful objects. So the name stateless is actually kind of tongue-in-cheek because it's a joke on the fact that I'm trying to build a purely functional effects system on a mechanism that is inherently stateful, which seems like a crazy thing to do. But the way that I get around it is that I use decorators, which is another Python concept quite extensively. […]
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- Sune Debel
- Szymon Teżewski
- Paul Snively
- Aaron Pollack
- Steven Troxler
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- YouTube views
- 15,997
- Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025
- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.7 / 5
- 14 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.7 / 5
- 33 ratings
Podcast Authority Score: 59 / 100
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- Quality
- 52
- Social presence
- 0
- YouTube
- 76
- Engagement
- 92
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