Purely functional programming is a brilliant idea with a misleading name. When people talk about “purely functional programming”, they mean Haskell or something like Haskell. But that’s not ...

Newer languages like Haskell are going completely functional. In simple terms, functional programming is all about building functions for immutable variables.

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 ...

What is something you wish you knew when you first started functional programming? This question was originally answered on Quora by Tikhon Jelvis.

Haskell in particular was designed to be an open standard for functional programming research. Many other languages support some or all of these features while being classified in other groups.

Adam C. Foltzer introduces Molog, a typed functional logic programming language written in Haskell.

Functional programming has been used successfully in a wide range of applications including the financial sector. Haskell, a functional programming language, has been used in embedded applications.

The Resurgence of Functional Programming track at QCon Plus featured several experts describing how functional programming makes developing software a joyful experience. They also told why and how ...