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.

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.

Functional Languages seem to be pushing for the title of the next cool thing. Talks and tutorials about them are starting to show up in conferences and conventions, books about them are hitting the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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