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 of ...

Functional programming languages are (in my experience - thus far Scheme and Lisp) allergic to bit-level twiddling. For example, writing a program that returns the SHA-1 cryptographically secure ...

Functions are fundamental to code organization; they exist in all higher order programming languages. Generally, functional programming means using functions to the best effect for creating clean and ...