functional programming keeps attracting developers. And three of the most popular functional languages — Clojure, F#, and Scala — are on tap for improvements. Functional programming has a core ...

Functional programming boils down to one key idea: you do everything with functions. No other language distills out this concept the way Scheme does. Designed based on Lisp for teaching students ...

Most of the discussions we have in the software industry today revolve around developer productivity: How do we make it possible for fewer developers to produce more software in less time?

The sands of the IT world are shifting, as the cloud and mobile move from being secondary to the old n-tier+web model that's dominated for much of the last decade. That sea change is shifting the ...

So, what are functional programming languages? At the core, they’re languages that carefully follow mathematical concepts. Variables aren’t, at least not as most programmers think of them They’re more ...

Microsoft has announced that support for the F# functional programming language will be fully integrated into Visual Studio. This marks a bold new commitment to facilitating functional programming ...

A programming language that is based primarily on writing algorithms (functions). The syntax of functional programming (FP) is mathematical, and the languages are used for applications such as ...

Functional programming languages must have first-class functions, meaning that the language treats functions as first-class values, which we defined as allowing functions to be the inputs and ...

Editor's note: Andrew Mager is reporting from the Future of Web Apps (FOWA 2010) conference, held in Miami from February 22 to 24. Click here to read all of his coverage. It's 2010. And we have ...

Java is transitioning into a functional programming language, introducing direct support for cloud computing and returning to its embedded-device roots, all at the same time. Already the world's most ...