These functional languages are more expressive! How can that be? You see, we don’t get functional programming by starting with an imperative language and cutting off its legs. A purely ...

A new model of declarative programming languages has emerged for building infrastructure as code, promising more simplicity and safety than imperative languages. In the last dozen years or so ...

In imperative programming languages such as C, functions (in the sense of subroutines that return a value) are often anything but pure, since they rely on internal and external state, and they may ...

The Vine programming language is a new experimental language built on interaction nets. It features interoperability between functional and imperative programming patterns. Vine is a statically ...

In conclusion, a programming language is much more understandable than machine code and allows greater portability. Imperative language programs use a series of commands, grouped into blocks and ...

In my first job out of college, I was assigned the task of rewriting the autocomplete feature of a search page. The original code, entombed in a decrepit codebase, was a nauseating monstrosity ...

Called ArnoldC—see what he did there?—it’s “an imperative programming language where the basic keywords are replaced with quotes from different Schwarzenegger movies.” Yes, really.

Image from Amazon. In fact, my first programming language was BASIC on the ZX Spectrum which was very much imperative. So much so, that all the lines were numbered as ’10, 20, 30’ etc.

The majority of the most-used programming languages are imperative (C++, C#, PHP, and Python). The current trend for more network automation is pushing many network professionals to dust off old ...

Functional programming is a programming style that is significantly different than imperative programming languages like C and C++. Functional programs tend to avoid mutable data like variable ...