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 ...

Computers typically implement the Von Neumann architecture, which is a widely-used computer ... imperative languages are fundamentally flawed, and presented a functional-level programming language ...

Immutability, a lack of side effects, and composability are some of the features that have recently increased the popularity of functional programming languages, especially in the era of ...

One Wall Street firm found computational success not on the traditional path of enterprise Java, but in an obscure functional programming language ... the QCon developer conference in New York.

In fact, most developers use several programming languages. Who doesn’t also use JavaScript, HTML, XML, WSDL, SQL and other languages (domain specific, procedural, markup, functional ...