One more than one occasion, I’ve found myself yearning for a more functional paradigm that facilitates easier concurrency programming on the JVM. And while Erlang is an excellent platform for ...

Functional programming is different; it tries to have very little of that, ideally nothing at all (though we don’t reach the ideal all the time).

Even as some argue exactly what it is, functional programming keeps attracting developers. And three of the most popular functional languages — Clojure, F#, and Scala — are on tap for ...

Scala is also a functional programming language. I’ve talked about functional programming many times over the years, but it continues to have an undeserved air of mystery around it.

The interoperability of Scala with Java, the statically typed nature of the language, and the additional ability of Scala to provide a platform for functional programming has made Scala a quickly ...