Suppose you are to build a software application for a startup from scratch, would functional programming be a better choice than imperative programming?

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

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 ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

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Whether or not functional languages are poised to take the next step into wide spread adoption is anybody’s guess, but it’s certainly a possibility. Recently, three different publishers have release ...

It’s with that in mind that computer scientist Ramsey Nasser has built قلب (pronounced “Alb,” lit. “heart”), a fully-functional programming language based on Arabic script.

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Purely functional programming languages such as Haskell are very strict in their approach to side effects. Monads can be used to compensate for this strictness in order to implement a lot of the ...