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 ...

DeepMind set up its own programming contests and then fed the results into the system: problem description, working code, failing code, and the test cases used to check it.

It challenges my preconceptions about where bugs come from, and how much automated tools can help; ... In functional programming languages, you have first-class functions ...

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 ...

It’s a programming style that rose to prominence with languages like Clojure, Scala, and Elm, but you can get into the functional mindset right within JavaScript.

Built on top of Erlang, Elixir makes it easier to write good functional programming code and harder to mess it up. Here's a first look at this language on the rise.

Functional programming has more expressive, legible and elegant code. The basis for functional programming has its basis in lambda calculus. Lambda calculus is a mathematical theory originated in the ...