C++ doesn’t encourage functional programming, but it doesn’t prevent you from doing it, and you retain the power to drop down and apply SIMD intrinsics to hand laid out data backed by memory ...

Functional programming is a significant paradigm shift in the software world over the past 10 years. Slowly but surely, ... C++ offers the ability to opt-in to immutability.

For example, JavaScript, Lua, and Perl 6 are scripting languages that support functional programming; C++ 11, C# 3+, and Rust are C-like languages that support functional programming; and MATLAB ...

C++ is what Ernst called a “multiple paradigm language,” one able to support multiple programming models. So it supports functional programming as easily as it does as object oriented programming.

Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer ...

But no. Functional programming isn’t what it isn’t. Functional programmers aren’t ascetics. Haskell is not a “bondage and discipline” language. (If I’m into both, it’s just a ...

Functional programming languages have their space and use, but I’m not convinced that 8 bit microcontrollers is where it’s at. ... For that matter C++ signature matching is the same concept.