Pure functional programming language implementations have no side effects and essentially use immutable, single assignments. That is, you can set X to 1 but once it is set it cannot be changed.

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 ...

For example, JavaScript, Lua, and Perl 6 are scripting languages that support functional programming; C++ 11, C# 3+, and Rust are C-like languages that support functional programming; and MATLAB ...

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 ...

Many Python fans have longed for the language to adopt functional programming features. Now they can get those features without having to switch to a new Python implementation.

During the last several years, the winners of the ICFP Programming Contest were mostly Haskell, OCaml and Dylan programmers, all of which are functional programming languages. Learning new things ...

Microsoft has announced that support for the F# functional programming language will be fully integrated into Visual Studio. This marks a bold new commitment to facilitating functional programming ...

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 ...

This allows it to be used by developers more familiar with non-functional programming languages. OCaPIC is a compact OCaml implementation that runs on an 8-bit PIC18 microcontroller from Microchip.

What are the differences between languages? Communication protocols Computers use languages to communicate with each other and have nothing to do with programming languages. They are referred to as ...