The open source Futhark makes it easier to program for GPUs that speed up machine learning and other math-intensive apps Researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Computer ...

Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java ...

Answer by Tikhon Jelvis, lead data scientist, on Quora:. Purely functional programming is a brilliant idea with a misleading name. When people talk about “purely functional programming”, they ...

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.

I was 5 or 6 when I got my first sense of the joys of computer programming. This was in the early 1980s, when few people had a computer. One day, my dad brought home a Sinclair ZX Spectrum, one of ...