Functional Programming has been around for quit e some time. Its characteristic features include high order functions, lazy evaluation, side-effect freeness, etc. These characteristics are ...

Tim Bray, co-inventor of XML and now with Google, hails languages such as Erlang, Clojure as developers deal with multicore chips Rather than using threads, functional programming presents the ...

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Functional programming languages will have a place in general application development when we can read their code at a glance Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know functional programming is ...

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Rather than using threads, functional programming presents the superior approach for developers who must program for newfangled multicore processors, XML co-inventor Tim Bray stressed at a technical ...