Working with functional programming requires a shift in your thinking, but has benefits in productivity for programmer and maintainer alike We all learned about ...

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 programming ...

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Most of the discussions we have in the software industry today revolve around developer productivity: How do we make it possible for fewer developers to produce more software in less time? Reducing ...

The Java language and virtual machine are almost two decades old, and while most developers would recognize the old and new models of Java as being related, there's no question that Java has changed ...

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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 on ...

Answer by Keith Adams, Computer programmer at Facebook, on Quora, If you're doing it for the purpose of learning, get thee to Haskell. It takes the paradigm to its logical conclusion. I found Haskell ...

If you want to know how well a technology is doing, just look at who's lining up to learn it. In the case of Reactive programming, online education trends point to a mainstreaming of the erstwhile ...

Functional Languages seem to be pushing for the title of the next cool thing. Talks and tutorials about them are starting to show up in conferences and conventions, books about them are hitting the ...