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Why i changed the blog's name

This one's *not* be about programming... mostly. Ok, it is. It always is. This is an explanation on why I changed the name I had for this blog. The previous name was officially Run or Debug, but now I called Left Fold. Why would you do that, you ask? Well, the main story is because I hated the previous name but still I didn't have the courage (or the will) to change it. And truly, I didn't have a better name in mind... Until recently! I started to learn F# recently and as a guy who comes mostly from C# a lot of concepts were new to me, and some were not new, I just didn't know their name. It has been quite a journey, as anyone who has the same background as me would understand. I jumped from a general OOP language to a non-pure functional language. One of those concepts "learned" is called a left fold. I am aware it does exist in C# too, and it is all but new, but hear me out, I just never had thought about it this way . So, what the hell is a left fol