The sands of the IT world are shifting, as the cloud and mobile move from being secondary to the old n-tier+web model that's dominated for much of the last decade. That sea change is shifting the ...

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 ...

Answer by Keith Adams, Computer programmer at Facebook, on Quora, If you're doing it for the purpose of learning, get thee to Haskell. It takes the paradigm to its logical conclusion. I found Haskell ...

Working with functional programming requires a shift in your thinking, but has benefits in productivity for programmer and maintainer alike We all learned about ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming ...

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, ...