Fuctional programming has existed for decades, but only in the last few years has it gained the attention it deserves, for a lot of very good reasons like:
32 replies - 4964 views - 09/14/09 by mario.fusco in Articles
Clojure is a dynamically typed, functional programming language available on the JVM. A
significant benefit of functional programming is the ease with...
4 replies - 3555 views - 05/04/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in News
In this session, recorded at JAOO Aarhus 2008, Anders Hejlsberg
provides fascinating insight to the future of programming languages. He
talks extensively...
6 replies - 8645 views - 04/15/09 by Kirk Knoernschild in Videos
Authorities in the field of software engineering have long lamented the
fact that functional programming (FP) doesn't seem to catch on. Their
sympathizers...
8 replies - 8668 views - 02/26/09 by Confusion09 in News
In one of my earlier explorations I described a policy object created by "functional style programming" in Java. The basic idea is to make methods...
3 replies - 2345 views - 05/02/08 by Yardena in Tips and Tricks
I want to share with you a little gadget that uses google-collections. Basically, a rule is a condition and an action.
9 replies - 2603 views - 05/01/08 by Yardena in Tips and Tricks
Ted Neward, popular developer, author and speaker, wrote an introductory article for Scala, which is on IBM developerWorks.The busy Java developer's guide to...
0 replies - 1921 views - 01/24/08 by Rick Hightower in News