Abstractions in programming, while hiding complexity and creating more distance to that machine code, help programmers get closer to the actual problems they’re trying to solve.

Functional programming languages will have a place in general application development when we can read their code at a glance.

Juniper is a functional reactive programming language for the Arduino platform. What that means is that you’ll be writing your code using anonymous functions, map/fold operations, recursion, and ...

Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java ...

By contrast, the approach described in this article uses a functional abstraction in which the implementation-related data and artefacts are combined into standardised functional models, instead of ...

Purely functional programming is a brilliant idea with a misleading name. When people talk about “purely functional programming”, they mean Haskell or something like Haskell.

The functional programming paradigm, which has been around for decades, has never gone out of style. In this two-part series, we look at Microsoft's implementation, Visual F#.

Avertec, a French start-up company born of research conducted at the University Pierre et Marie Curie, Paris, has introduced YAGLE a functional abstraction EDA tool intended to support the ...