Mixing generics and functional programming simplifies writing some extensibility libraries tremendously. For example, combining these techniques makes it easy to create a generic Undo library.

Mixing generics and functional programming simplifies writing some extensibility libraries tremendously. For example, combining these techniques makes it easy to create a generic Undo library.

A new draft to add support for generic programming to Go is centered around the concept of contracts, which are used to constrain type parameters to types and functions. The draft also introduces ...

Go developers still cite generics as the top missing feature of the popular Go programming language.

It can apply STL-like generic programming to Swing clients, generic parameterization, some generic arithmetic on Number subclasses, but has a few function methods providing basic operations. Another ...

Bjarne Stroustrup is on a mission to simplify generic programming. In a recently published paper titled “Concepts: The Future of Generic Programming,” Stroustrup makes the case for concepts as ...

The Resurgence of Functional Programming track at QCon Plus featured several experts describing how functional programming makes developing software a joyful experience. They also told why and how ...

Functional programming can offer a more productive style of software development, but it takes some getting used to. With the functional paradigm, which is enabled in languages like Haskell, Scala ...

More banks and other financial firms are turning to functional programming as an alternative to the dominant approach known as imperative. Advocates of the functional style say it results in code with ...

Facebook went with a novel programming methodology, called functional programming, to update the News Feed for its Apple iOS client, which helped considerably in tuning and debugging the app ...