As Martin Fowler famously said, “Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.” The syntax of functional programming just isn ...

The open source Futhark makes it easier to program for GPUs that speed up machine learning and other math-intensive apps Researchers at the University of Copenhagen’s Department of Computer ...

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Before Haskell, academic researchers had implemented certain functional concepts in the languages they worked with. But in the late 1980s, a group of computer scientists came together to smelt ...

The programmers were shown 72 different code snippets while under the observation of functional MRI (fMRI) and asked to place each snippet into one of four functional categories.

The previous code example illustrates four important points about functional programming: We can indeed think of the function f as a map between two sets of numbers. In terms of arr.map(f) where f is ...

Bulletproof code. Functional programming is not new – the first functional language was developed in the late 1950s. But historically, imperative languages had substantial memory and speed advantages ...

Facebook went with a novel programming methodology, called functional programming, to update the News Feed for its Apple iOS client, which helped considerably in tuning and debugging the app.