One of the first commercialised functional programming languages was Erlang, developed to reduce the risk of errors in telephone networks.

Functional programming languages will have a place in general application development when we can read their code at a glance.

Microsoft has announced that support for the F# functional programming language will be fully integrated into Visual Studio. This marks a bold new commitment to facilitating functional programming ...

What are the best languages for getting into functional programming? This question was originally answered on Quora.

Java is transitioning into a functional programming language, introducing direct support for cloud computing and returning to its embedded-device roots, all at the same time. Already the world's most ...

Functional programming is a significant paradigm shift in the software world over the past 10 years. Slowly but surely, it has moved from a niche feature of a few uncommonly used languages to a ...

So, what are functional programming languages? At the core, they’re languages that carefully follow mathematical concepts. Variables aren’t, at least not as most programmers think of them They’re more ...

In his latest blog post, Michael Feathers argued that object oriented programming languages offer some built-in features that facilitate testing and are therefore more recovery friendly than ...

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 ...

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 ...