A monthly overview of things you need to know as an architect or aspiring architect. This article dives into the happens-before semantics of Go channels, explaining how they relate to memory ...

Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming ...

In the past two columns, we’ve looked at higher-order functions and talked a little bit about the power of functional programming. So far, the concepts we’ve covered do little to indicate how powerful ...

Microsoft has announced that support for the F# functional programming language will be fully integrated into Visual Studio. This marks a bold new commitment to facilitating functional programming on ...

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 ...

Functional Languages seem to be pushing for the title of the next cool thing. Talks and tutorials about them are starting to show up in conferences and conventions, books about them are hitting the ...

What is something you wish you knew when you first started functional programming? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and ...