What is a functional language, exactly? In its most basic terms, functional programming is about treating computation as mathematical functions. In addition to languages billed as functional from ...

Speaking at the VSLive New York conference here on Sept. 8, Luke Hoban, the F# program manager at Microsoft, said F# is a functional programming language for .NET, which will join C# and Visual ...

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In many programming languages, functions cannot be passed around like values, or it takes manual work to have them passed around. Also, data values are immutable in a functional programming language.

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Functional programming languages are largely based on the system of lambda calculus devised by Alonzo Church, in which numerical values, sequences, data structures, basic mathematical computations ...

In many programming languages, functions cannot be passed around like values, or it takes manual work to have them passed around. Also, data values are immutable in a functional programming language.