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 ...

Even as some argue exactly what it is, functional programming keeps attracting developers. And three of the most popular functional languages — Clojure, F#, and Scala — are on tap for improvements.

Functional programming languages work on an entirely different level than widely understood procedural and object-oriented programming techniques. The functional language approach is to create ...

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 ...

What is your opinion on purely functional programming? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and better understand the world.

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 ...

The recent en banc opinion in Williamson v. Citrix (Fed. Cir. 2015)[1] highlights the dangers of functional claiming in computer-implemented inventions. On June 16, 2015, the Federal Circuit decided ...

Accellera Systems Initiative (Accellera) today announced that its Board of Directors has approved the Functional Safety Language (FSL) Standard 1.0 for release. The new standard provides a unified, ...