When developing applications, programmers must follow certain rules linked to the programming languages implicated in the developing process. These rules are not only syntactical or semantic but also ...

Functional Languages seem to be pushing for the title of the next cool thing. Talks and tutorials about them are starting to show up in conferences and conventions, books about them are hitting the ...

Haskell is one of the most popular functional programming languages but it has not found much use in the embedded space. That is not likely to change in the near future but there are reasons for ...

Functional programming languages will have a place in general application development when we can read their code at a glance Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know functional programming is ...

A programming language that is based primarily on writing algorithms (functions). The syntax of functional programming (FP) is mathematical, and the languages are used for applications such as ...

The Java language and virtual machine are almost two decades old, and while most developers would recognize the old and new models of Java as being related, there's no question that Java has changed ...

Last time, we examined the advantages, benefits of programming using the functional paradigm, specifically, programming with Microsoft's Visual F#. I explained some of the syntactic sugars that allow ...

Academic researchers have published a study investigating the effect of programming languages on software quality, concluding the issue is hard to quantify but also identifying significant findings, ...