to one that descends from more formal languages such as Lisp. Functional programming languages were, until recently, languages for computer science. Based on a pure mathematical approach to ...

Functional programming languages must have first-class ... up being both concise and comprehensible. Scheme, ML, Haskell, Clojure, F#, Common Lisp, and Scala (in no particular order) are all ...

Lisp is one of those programming languages that seems to keep taunting us for not learning it properly. It is still used for teaching functional languages today. [Adam McDaniel] has an obvious ...

Haskell is one of the most popular functional programming ... One reason for mentioning Lisp is that Lisp is one of the oldest programming languages in general use. It is also used in production ...

The syntax is based on Scheme, which itself is based on the much-beloved Lisp programming language. Originally developed in 1958, Lisp has influenced some of the most popular modern languages ...

The Scheme implementation ... He detailed ideas on functional programming implementations in other languages in a subsequent post. “It’s past time I at least get this on everyone’s radar ...

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 ...

In the 1960s, BASIC, FORTRAN, LISP and ALGOL were the primary introductory programming languages. In the 1970s and 1980s, Pascal, C, Smalltalk and Scheme were the teaching programming languages of ...

which is why we ended up with such an amazing range of programming languages, even if most trace their roots back to ALGOL. Of the more unique (and practical) languages, Lisp and Forth probably ...