Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer ...

The functional programming paradigm, which has been around for decades, has never gone out of style. In this two-part series, we look at Microsoft's implementation, Visual F#.

Microsoft's efforts to push dynamic and functional programming into the mainstream are one of many signs that the art of software development is enjoying a profound renaissance.

So far, the concepts we’ve covered do little to indicate how powerful the basic building blocks of functional programming are when combined.

Functional programming concepts and terminology Functional programming is a programming style in which computations are codified as functional programming functions.

The tricky mathematical concepts of functional programming, such as category theory, lambda calculus and type theory, mean the style may never be as popular with budding coders as its imperative ...

DataForge, a leading data integration provider, has open-sourced a new framework for developing and managing data transformation code.