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 ...

Just in case you don't think Haskell is being used for anything but academics then check out the Commercial Users of Functional Programming site. They have an annual conference as well.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.