Microsoft’s Language-Integrated Query (Linq) technology also provides for functional programming, he says. “Almost every programming language now is adopting features from functional languages.” ...

Functional programming idioms are elegant and will help you become a better programmer in all languages. "The smartest programmers I know are functional programmers." - one of my undergrad professors ...

Even with functional programming improvements in Java 8, Java remains an imperative, object-oriented programming language. It’s missing range types and other features that would make it more ...

SAN FRANCISCO - Unless you've been living under a rock, you know functional programming is all the rage among the so-called alpha geeks.Perhaps you already use a functional programming language.

Recently, three different publishers have release books about different functional programming languages. First, Apress put out Practical OCaml, which didn’t go over very well in the community—I know ...

A purely functional programming language is a functional language with an explicit way to manage effects like Haskell’s IO type. ... for example—and I consistently miss working in a pure language.

A programming language that is based primarily on writing algorithms (functions). The syntax of functional programming (FP) is mathematical, and the languages are used for applications such as ...

Functional programming languages were, until recently, languages for computer science. Based on a pure mathematical approach to programming, they were the basis of much modern computer science ...

And in a more subtle way, functional programming has already ascended: by introducing functional features into conventional languages. The future, then, may not belong entirely to either style.

This allows it to be used by developers more familiar with non-functional programming languages. OCaPIC is a compact OCaml implementation that runs on an 8-bit PIC18 microcontroller from Microchip .