‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful! Last week, I casually dropped the term “higher-order ...

Pure functions. The ideal in functional programming is what is known as pure functions.A pure function is one whose results are dependent only upon the input parameters, and whose operation ...

At Microsoft's Ignite 2017 conference today, the company announced a range of new features that will be coming to its Excel application, such as JavaScript Custom Functions and more.

In the case of the Chakra engine there's no console to which the JavaScript code can write. However, it is possible to create a function that calls back into managed code, and from there an entry can ...

And they don't say the random number generator function in JavaScript -- Math.random() -- is broken. They say it "offers sub-par quality." Specifically, V8 used a pseudorandom number generator (PRNG) ...