And using functional programming dramatically reduced the effort required in debugging problems, Ernst said. Nor was memory an issue. One of the concerns around functional programming has been in ...

Solutions to diverse problems could be expressed recursively. The recursive solution is usually the most legible and elegant, and in pure functional programming any loop is achieved by means of ...

The rewrite could be done without knowing Haskell, technically, but I was an overeager graduate with a “challenge accepted ... clarion call to evolve “functional programming” from ...

So, what are functional programming languages? At the core ... of them They’re more like a variable in algebra—once you’ve found the value of X in a problem, it’s not going to change on you.