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 ...

That’s about to change. Not only are languages like Java or Python adopting more and more concepts from functional programming. Newer languages like Haskell are going completely functional.

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 ...

When I ask developers “what programming language do you use?”, the answer I often get is a single language. Most developers define themselves as a Java, C++, Delphi, C#, Visual Basic, PHP ...

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.

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 ...

Since their introduction in 2002, Microsoft's pair of .NET programming languages, C# and Visual Basic.NET, have been close siblings.

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.