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.

Mads Torgersen discusses how object-oriented languages, particularly C#, have adopted functional features, and what to expect next. Mads Torgersen is the lead designer of the C# programming language, ...

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, ...

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.

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 ...

What is something you wish you knew when you first started functional programming? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and ...

However, more programming decisions have yet to be made. My feeling when I wrote “Is Parallel Programming In Your Future?” was that the basic change would be from the sequential mode of procedural ...

Last time, we examined the advantages, benefits of programming using the functional paradigm, specifically, programming with Microsoft's Visual F#. I explained some of the syntactic sugars that allow ...