A programming language that is based primarily on writing algorithms (functions). The syntax of functional programming (FP) is mathematical, and the languages are used for applications such as ...

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 ...

In Functional programming for Java developers, Part 1, I used JavaScript examples to get you started with five functional programming techniques: pure functions, higher-order functions, lazy ...

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 ...

For example, JavaScript, Lua, and Perl 6 are scripting languages that support functional programming; C++ 11, C# 3+, and Rust are C-like languages that support functional programming; and MATLAB ...

Pure functional programming language implementations have no side effects and essentially use immutable, single assignments. That is, you can set X to 1 but once it is set it cannot be changed.

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 ...

The advocates of functional programming say this is example of being able to catch an entire class of errors at compile time, leading to more predictable, reliable, and stable code.

During the last several years, the winners of the ICFP Programming Contest were mostly Haskell, OCaml and Dylan programmers, all of which are functional programming languages. Learning new things ...