According to Sperber, functional programming enables late architecture and reduces coupling compared to OOP. In order to defer macroarchitecture decisions, we must always decouple, Sperber argued.

InfoQ interviewed Phillip Carter, program manager at Microsoft, to talk about functional programming, F#, and the new features of F# 5.

Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer ...

Functional programming has been viewed as valuable in domains such as the financial and scientific realms as well as technical computing. Microsoft has described F# as combining type safety ...

DataForge, a leading data integration provider, has open-sourced a new framework for developing and managing data transformation code.