Functional Programming

A more general discussion group on the broad range of functional programming languages.
  • F# vs Mathematica: Red-Black Trees

    Mathematica is an expensive commercial application sold as software for "interactive technical computing". In particular, the product centers around the Mathematica programming language which is a very powerful and dynamic language based upon term rewriting with excellent graphical capabilities and…

    By Daniel Leuck

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  • Real World Scheme

    I love scheme and have used it for many projects on the more educational side of things, but I've never really found any materials discussing it's use in more "real world" scenarios. Does anyone know of any resources for using scheme in say... web programming, or in graphics rendering outside of…

    By Anders Conbere

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  • Functional programming in mainstream languages

    Just wanted to mention (and I think plenty of other people interested in FP languages already do this) that much of the code that I've written in mainstream/procedural/OO languages ends up being purely functional. I was delighted to hear Rich Hickey, in one of his Clojure videos, say that he does…

    By Nate Sanders

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