Purely functional programming is a brilliant idea with a misleading name. When people talk about “purely functional programming”, they mean Haskell or something like Haskell. But that’s not ...

Before Haskell, academic researchers had implemented certain functional concepts in the languages they worked with. But in the late 1980s, a group of computer scientists came together to smelt ...

Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. ... Newer languages like Haskell are going completely functional.

But no. Functional programming isn’t what it isn’t. Functional programmers aren’t ascetics. Haskell is not a “bondage and discipline” language. (If I’m into both, it’s just a ...

Embedded Functional Programming Using Haskell. June 17, 2011. Haskell is one of the most popular functional programming languages but it has not found much use in the embedded space.

Haskell in particular was designed to be an open standard for functional programming research. Many other languages support some or all of these features while being classified in other groups.

Haskell isn't about to take over the world, but functional programming is slowly making its presence felt. Programmers can be a tribal bunch. Systems programmers see themselves as a breed apart ...

LISP was the first functional programming language, followed by Erlang, Scheme, Haskell, OCaml, Scala, Clojure, F# and others. Advertisement. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

And in a more subtle way, functional programming has already ascended: by introducing functional features into conventional languages. The future, then, may not belong entirely to either style.