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 ...

Functional programming languages were, until recently, languages for computer science. Based on a pure mathematical approach to programming, they were the basis of much modern computer science ...

You see, we don’t get functional programming by starting with an imperative language and cutting off its legs. A purely functional subset of Java or C or Python would be miserable little languages.

Rather than waiting for functional features to appear in the JDK, many developers are switching to more functional-friendly JVM languages, such as Scala, Kotlin, and Clojure.

Functional programming languages can have objects, but generally those objects are immutable — either arguments or return values to functions. There are no for/next loops, as those imply state ...

Functional programming language A functional programming language (often called procedural language) is a language that creates programs using functions, returning to a new output state and receiving ...

Editor's note: Andrew Mager is reporting from the Future of Web Apps (FOWA 2010) conference, held in Miami from February 22 to 24. Click here to read all of his coverage.

Also See: Functional Programming, the .NET Way, Part 2 When developing applications, programmers must follow certain rules linked to the programming languages implicated in the developing process.