Reliance on immutable data structures is a key aspect of functional programming. By defining variables at the outset, programming languages like Haskell and PureScript aim to help developers write bug ...

It is usually called "the programming language that math lovers love"As the heading suggests, Haskell is generally known (in ...

Haskell is one of the most popular functional programming languages but it has not found much use in the embedded space. That is not likely to change in the near future but there are reasons for ...

Videos from an introductory course by Professor Graham Hutton from the University of Nottingham have been made freely available on YouTube. Designed for first year Computer Science students, they ...

Erik Meijer's Introduction to Functional Programming MOOC has just started. If this is a topic you want to know more about, this free class could be an ideal route. Presented on the edX platform, ...

Answer by Tikhon Jelvis, Functional Programmer, Student, on Quora, It's a very difficult question because, at heart, it's more a matter of sociology than technology. Languages get popular or remain ...

The functional programming language Haskell has a small but very vocal support base in finance. It ranks 31st on the TIOBE index and is the 18th highest paying language on the Stack Overflow survey, ...

Paul Hudak, a longtime Yale University computer science professor and one of the creators of the Haskell programming language, died on April 29 at age 62 after a long battle with leukemia. Hudak is ...

Lux, a new Lisp-like functional language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine, has ambitions to pick up where similar languages leave off. Currently in an 0.5 beta release, Lux claims that while it ...