When you think about well-structured software, you might think about software that’s easy to write, easy to debug, and where a lot of it is reusable. That’s functional programming in a nutshell!

Once functional programming really clicked in my brain, I was like ‘why do it any other way?’ Rise of functional programming in mainstream languages. Functional programming’s origins stretch back to ...

How do programming languages get created, and what goes into design decisions? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and ...

There is no question that the world has a COBOL problem. Our banks, governments and enterprise systems are propped up by a 60-year-old programming language that fewer and fewer people understand ...

Requiring a college degree (in anything, not just CompSci) excludes the people who are really committed to learning programming skills, because they did it on their own time, or worked full-time ...