How functional programming mattered

In 1989 when functional programming was still considered a niche topic, Hughes wrote a visionary paper arguing convincingly ‘why functional programming maters’. More than two decades have passed. Has functional programming really matered? Our answer is a resounding ‘Yes.’. Functional programming is...

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Published in:National science review Vol. 2; no. 3; pp. 349 - 370
Main Authors: Hu, Zhenjiang, Hughes, John, Wang, Meng
Format: Journal Article
Language:English
Published: 01.09.2015
Subjects:
equational reasoning
functional languages
functional programming
high order function
monad
ISSN:2095-5138, 2053-714X, 2053-714X
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Summary:In 1989 when functional programming was still considered a niche topic, Hughes wrote a visionary paper arguing convincingly ‘why functional programming maters’. More than two decades have passed. Has functional programming really matered? Our answer is a resounding ‘Yes.’. Functional programming is now at the forefront of a new generation of programming technologies, and enjoying increasing popularity and inluence. In this paper, we review the impact of functional programming, focusing on how it has changed the way we may construct programs, the way we may verify programs, and fundamentally the way we may think about programs.
Bibliography:Zhenjiang Hu;John Hughes;Meng Wang;National Institute of Informatics;Department of Informatics,SOKENDAI(Graduate University for Advanced Studies);Department of Computer Science and Engineering,Chalmers University of Technology;School of Computing,University of Kent
10-1088/N
ISSN:2095-5138
2053-714X
2053-714X
DOI:10.1093/nsr/nwv042