Microsoft’s Language-Integrated Query (Linq) technology also provides for functional programming, he says. “Almost every programming language now is adopting features from functional languages.” ...

Functional programming idioms are elegant and will help you become a better programmer in all languages. "The smartest programmers I know are functional programmers." - one of my undergrad professors ...

Functional programming is a significant paradigm shift in the software world over the past 10 years. Slowly but surely, it has moved from a niche feature of a few uncommonly used languages to a ...

Functional programming languages were, until recently, languages for computer science. Based on a pure mathematical approach to programming, they were the basis of much modern computer science ...

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 ...

Functional programming languages will have a place in general application development when we can read their code at a glance Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know functional ...

LISP was the first functional programming language, followed by Erlang, Scheme, Haskell, OCaml, Scala, Clojure, F# and others. Advertisement. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

Recently, three different publishers have release books about different functional programming languages. First, Apress put out Practical OCaml, which didn’t go over very well in the community—I know ...

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.

Java EE8 will add a functional programming language capability, and marrying functional language programming with cloud parallelism should create new microservice models for enterprise applications.