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 ...

Suppose you are to build a software application for a startup from scratch, would functional programming be a better choice than imperative programming?

Also See: Functional Programming, the .NET Way (Part 1) Last time, we examined the advantages, benefits of programming using the functional paradigm, specifically, programming with Microsoft's Visual ...

This article introduces functional programming paradigm and shows how the industry is taking it forward to achieve more parallelism on concurrent systems.

The Resurgence of Functional Programming track at QCon Plus featured several experts describing how functional programming makes developing software a joyful experience. They also told why and how ...

Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java ...

What is something you wish you knew when you first started functional programming? This question was originally answered on Quora by Tikhon Jelvis.

Juniper is a functional reactive programming language for the Arduino platform. What that means is that you’ll be writing your code using anonymous functions, map/fold operations, recursion, and ...

In this talk, I will introduce a recent paradigm for the quantum analog of functional programming, known as higher-order quantum computation. I will present my results on how this paradigm can be used ...

Functional programming has been used successfully in a wide range of applications including the financial sector. Haskell, a functional programming language, has been used in embedded applications.