With the release of Visual Studio 2010, the Visual F# functional language officially shipped; it now constitutes the alternative offered by Microsoft for functional programming on the .NET platform.

Functional programming advocates keeping most of your data immutable. ... For example, to add up the ... it's much easier to incorporate them in your Java, Javascript, C# and other codebases.

Immutability is a feature of functional programming languages that makes programs easier to write, test, and maintain. However, immutability is not supported by many imperative programming ...

Out of the three words, “pure” is the worst offender. I mean, “functional programming”¹ isn’t exactly well-defined, ... for example—and I consistently miss working in a pure language.

Facebook went with a novel programming methodology, called functional programming, to update the News Feed for its Apple iOS client, which helped considerably in tuning and debugging the app ...

Also See: Functional Programming, the .NET Way (Part 1) Last time, we examined the advantages, benefits of programming using the functional paradigm, specifically, programming with Microsoft's Visual ...