IT currently is awash in programming languages, which for some equates to burden of choice. But Neil McAllister sees the future in these cutting-edge experiments. Find out how emerging languages ...

C, C++, and Java are all imperative programming languages. In 1977, distinguished computer scientist John Backus (notable for his work on FORTRAN ), gave a lecture titled “ Can programming be ...

Scala is a powerful programming language for the Java virtual machine (JVM). It can give you higher quality and more concise code. Moreover, it offers a safe road to high-performance, scalable ...

The dichotomy isn’t clear-cut, as a growing number of languages support both styles, but for our purposes it may be enough to say that in imperative programming you write code as a series of ...

You see, we don’t get functional programming by starting with an imperative language and cutting off its legs. A purely functional subset of Java or C or Python would be miserable little languages.

Code written in the functional style also tends to be more concise because functional programming works by telling the computer what the desired result is, rather than by spelling out the steps it ...

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