The sands of the IT world are shifting, as the cloud and mobile move from being secondary to the old n-tier+web model that's dominated for much of the last decade. That sea change is shifting the ...

Microsoft has announced that support for the F# functional programming language will be fully integrated into Visual Studio. This marks a bold new commitment to facilitating functional programming on ...

The comp.lang.functional FAQ describes functional programming this way: “Functional programming is a style of programming that emphasizes the evaluation of expressions, rather than execution of ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

Most of the discussions we have in the software industry today revolve around developer productivity: How do we make it possible for fewer developers to produce more software in less time? Reducing ...

When developing applications, programmers must follow certain rules linked to the programming languages implicated in the developing process. These rules are not only syntactical or semantic but also ...

Functional programming languages will have a place in general application development when we can read their code at a glance Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know functional programming is ...

Suppose you are to build a software application for a startup from scratch, would functional programming be a better choice than imperative programming? Even though functional programming has been ...