Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer of ...

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Functional programming languages are (in my experience - thus far Scheme and Lisp) allergic to bit-level twiddling. For example, writing a program that returns the SHA-1 cryptographically secure ...

A: The comp.lang.functional FAQ describes functional programming this way: “Functional programming is a style of programming that emphasizes the evaluation of expressions, rather than execution of ...

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Built on top of Erlang, Elixir makes it easier to write good functional programming code and harder to mess it up. Here's a first look at this language on the rise. Elixir is one of the most ...

Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

JavaScript’s arrays can hold heterogeneous types, change size on the fly, and readily insert or remove elements. Traditional methods like slice, splice, and push/pop do this by operating on the array ...

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