Microsoft is boosting integration of functional programming with its Visual Studio 2008 software development platform. Improved integration is featured in a September Community Technology Preview of ...

The Fable compiler gives developers the opportunity to unite the realms of F# functional programming and JavaScript. In a beta stage of development, Fable leverages F# and uses Babel compilers to ...

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Last time, we examined the advantages, benefits of programming using the functional paradigm, specifically, programming with Microsoft's Visual F#. I explained some of the syntactic sugars that allow ...

The sands of the IT world are shifting, as the cloud and mobile move from being secondary to the old n-tier+web model that's dominated for much of the last decade. That sea change is shifting the ...

Much has been made of Microsoft's embrace of open source and shift toward interoperability and collaboration, and that trend is exemplified in the new preview release of F#. F# is a functional ...

Answer by Keith Adams, Computer programmer at Facebook, on Quora, If you're doing it for the purpose of learning, get thee to Haskell. It takes the paradigm to its logical conclusion. I found Haskell ...

Figure 1. Functional JavaScript is available as an ebook (without DRM) from O'Reilly or as a paperback. Anyone who has followed my missives on programming have noted the varied exposure to different ...

Much has been made of Microsoft's embrace of open source and shift toward interoperability and collaboration, and that trend is exemplified in the new preview release of F#. F# is a functional ...