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.

Even though functional programming has been around for over half a century, it has never gained the kind of popularity anywhere near what imperative programming (e.g. C, Java) achieved.

Flix, an open-source programming language inspired by many programming languages, enables developers to write code in a functional, imperative or logic style. Flix looks like Scala, uses a type ...

There are close mappings between imperative programming languages and the underlying hardware support, but these don’t exist for functional languages. As a result, the compiler for a functional ...

Imperative programming language Imperative language programs use a series of commands, grouped into blocks and composed of conditional statements that allow the program to return to a block of ...

Not all of these projects implement declarative languages. Another interesting feature of Cascalog is that it allows imperative programming to be inserted into the declarative system if it is needed.

Some network teams are finding power and simplicity in the shift from telling devices what to do—imperative programming—to describing what they should be—declarative programming.

C# is a general-purpose, multi-paradigm programming language. C# encompasses static typing, strong typing, lexically scoped, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-oriented, and ...

Blogger Wes Fryer questions traditional emphases of education. With technology at the core of our world, why isn't programming taught from the earliest grades?

Although the first compiler for general-purpose, imperative programming language would not be delivered for three more years, September 20, 1954 marked the first run of a Fortran (Formula Translating) ...