Functional programming is reemerging as a serious alternative to the imperative model.

Computing Now Archive | November 2012 | Modern Programming Languages - IEEECS

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Functional programming is reemerging as a serious alternative to the imperative model.

Guest Editor's Introduction • George K. Thiruvathukal, Computing in Science and Engineering and Computing Now • November 2012 I consider myself a bit of a language junkie, although I'm more properly termed a languages person trapped in a systems researcher's body. In the early part of my career, I worked with a colleague at Argonne National Laboratory on compilers (and tools for creating compilers) for experimental object-oriented languages. It's probably a sign of insanity, but for those of us who studied in the late 1980s and early 1990s, the obsession du jour was to come up with the next awesome programming language or operating system. Realizing that getting anyone to use our languages would be a daunting challenge, most of us then settled on more pedestrian pursuits. For example, I decided to refocus my energy on messaging middleware for C and C++, knowing that there ...

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