Functional programming means using functions to the best effect for creating clean and maintainable software. This article illustrates the concepts behind the functional paradigm with practical ...

Functional programming and procedural programming often provide different views of the same thing. When I declare a function, such as y = 2x I may think of this as a procedure (sequential process ...

In the functional programming paradigm, a developer declares functions to execute specific behaviors; the function is the standard organizational unit of encapsulated logic. This contrasts with a ...

Journal of Functional Programming, 24. Zena M. Ariola, Paul Downen, Hugo Herbelin, Keiko Nakata, and Alexis Saurin. (2012). Classical Call-by-Need Sequent Calculi: The Unity of Semantic Artifacts. In ...

The Logic and Functional Programming Group was formally established in 1990 as an independent research group. It is a strong interdisciplinary group comprising members from numerous SFU units, two UBC ...

In functional programming, there are two varieties of functions: first-order functions and pure functions. ... As you can see in that example, the function payEmployee is a composed function, made up ...

¹ One of the “functional programming myths” I wrote about before is that “functional programming” is well-defined. It isn’t, and, even if we gave it a definition, the name would be a ...