Most power supply designers have never used a functional language for simulation, but then most programers don’t even know what a functional language is. So why would a hardware designer go where even ...

Functional programming can offer a more productive style of software development, but it takes some getting used to. With the functional paradigm, which is enabled in languages like Haskell, Scala, ...

I'll be graduating shortly, which means my free time will go away (or at least be repartitioned). I'd like to learn a functional language, mainly for the sake of doing it, and I'm not sure where to ...

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A study of GitHub projects and the languages used to build them finds that certain language characteristics are more likely to result in better software Language design makes a difference in software ...

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<p>Functional programming languages are not exclusive to the Java/JVM world. The Microsoft technology stack supports all the appropriate paradigms and capabilities to enable functional programming ...

Most of the discussions we have in the software industry today revolve around developer productivity: How do we make it possible for fewer developers to produce more software in less time? Reducing ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...