But there's one tribal divide that goes back to the very beginning of modern computing: that between functional and imperative programming. Professor Simon-Peyton Jones, an advocate of functional ...

Elixir is a dynamic functional programming language built on top of the Erlang BEAM virtual machine. It is excels at building concurrent fault-tolerant applications at scale.

Recent approaches to systems programming frequently involve functional programming either overtly in the sense that they use modern functional programming languages for rapid prototyping, or more ...