The open source Futhark makes it easier to program for GPUs that speed up machine learning and other math-intensive apps Researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Computer ...

As Martin Fowler famously said, “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” The syntax of functional programming just isn ...

Functional programming has more expressive, legible and elegant code. The basis for functional programming has its basis in lambda calculus. Lambda calculus is a mathematical theory originated in the ...

Non-coders often associate programming with math, but researchers have used fMRI readings to discover a possible link to the language processing centers of our brains. This story contains ...

The programmers were shown 72 different code snippets while under the observation of functional MRI (fMRI) and asked to place each snippet into one of four functional categories.

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 ...

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 ...

Facebook went with a novel programming methodology, called functional programming, to update the News Feed for its Apple iOS client, which helped considerably in tuning and debugging the app.