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

Functional programmers aren’t ascetics. Haskell is not a “bondage and discipline” language. (If I’m into both, it’s just a coincidence.) This idea should raise suspicions after you use ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Functional Languages seem to be pushing for the title of the next cool thing. Talks and tutorials about them are starting to show up in conferences and conventions, books about them are hitting the ...

Functional claim language is increasingly being used by practitioners to capture the metes and bounds of an invention, especially in computer-implemented inventions. Sometimes using functional ...