In general, functional languages prefer recursion, mapping, and folding to iteration; purely functional languages such as Haskell lack loop constructs entirely.

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-Depth Functional Programming, the .NET Way, Part 2 We looked at the basic features of functional programming with Visual F#. In this second part, we take it a bit farther and look at creating ...

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 functional programming, there are two varieties of functions: first-order functions and pure functions. First-order functions A first-order function takes standard data types (string, number, ...

Some of the most anticipated updates featured in new versions of imperative languages are those inspired by functional programming. In the end, Backus’ anti–von Neumann plea was heard.