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 ...

Purely functional programming is a brilliant idea with a misleading name. When people talk about “purely functional programming”, they mean Haskell or something like Haskell. But that’s not ...

Embedded Functional Programming Using Haskell. June 17, 2011. Haskell is one of the most popular functional programming languages but it has not found much use in the embedded space.

Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. ... Newer languages like Haskell are going completely functional.

Haskell in particular was designed to be an open standard for functional programming research. Many other languages support some or all of these features while being classified in other groups.

Haskell isn't about to take over the world, but functional programming is slowly making its presence felt. Programmers can be a tribal bunch. Systems programmers see themselves as a breed apart ...

I've been trying to learn Haskell lately, and the hardest thing seems to be learning about monads. "Monads in Ruby" and "Monads for Functional Programming" helped me finally to break the ice, but more ...

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.

In truth, functional programmers seem to be doing very well. They seem to be over-represented in the top finishers in programming competitions. Their code tremendously terse, and often scarily ...