Languages like SCALA (see If Your Programming Language Doesn't Work, Give Scala A Try) that are built on Java virtual machines are more likely to be chosen for new projects than functional ...

¹ One of the “functional programming myths” I wrote about before is that “functional programming” is well-defined. It isn’t, and, even if we gave it a definition, the name would be a ...

Before Haskell, academic researchers had implemented certain functional concepts in the languages they worked with. But in the late 1980s, a group of computer scientists came together to smelt ...

Newer programming languages such as Scala, Go, Julia, Clojure and Rust have many functional attributes, and the latest versions of Java and C++ also offer support for functional constructs.

Even as some argue exactly what it is, functional programming keeps attracting developers. And three of the most popular functional languages — Clojure, F#, and Scala — are on tap for ...

The interoperability of Scala with Java, the statically typed nature of the language, and the additional ability of Scala to provide a platform for functional programming has made Scala a quickly ...