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 ...

The syntax of functional programming just isn’t readable at a glance. A couple of code snippets will show you what I mean. An example from Erlang:-module(listsort).-export([by_length/1]).

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 ...

In functional programming, there are two varieties of functions: first-order functions and pure functions. First-order functions. A first-order function takes standard data types (string, number, ...

Functional programming is a significant paradigm shift in the software world over the past 10 years. Slowly but surely, it has moved from a niche feature of a few uncommonly used languages to a ...

I haven’t talked about programming languages for a while so here goes: We start this week with the free, open source (MIT License) Lua language. First released in 1993, Lua (which means “moon ...

LISP was the first functional programming language, followed by Erlang, Scheme, Haskell, OCaml, Scala, Clojure, F# and others. Advertisement. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

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 ...

The functional programming tribe is unlikely to overthrow the imperative majority, but it may achieve many of its goals by stealth, by becoming an essential tool in the developers' kit.

Functional programming is the best choice for smart contracts, according to Digital Asset, which won the overall prize at the London leg of the Barclays hackathon. The firm’s own, Haskell-inspired ...