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 ...

I've been reading about functional programming lately and it is certainly interesting material. I don't pretend to understand everything and i hope this isn't a stupid observation: The one thing i ...

When a development project demands functional programming, there are many options available to the development team, from purely functional languages to multi-paradigm languages like C# and F#.

According to Sperber, functional programming enables late architecture and reduces coupling compared to OOP. In order to defer macroarchitecture decisions, we must always decouple, Sperber argued.

Functional programming has been viewed as valuable in domains such as the financial and scientific realms as well as technical computing. Microsoft has described F# as combining type safety ...