When Rich Hickey created Clojure he did so because he wanted a Lisp language that used immutable data structures by default, that was designed with concurrency in mind, and was compatible with an ...

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Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Frege, a functional language on the JVM, wants to give Scala a run for its money and entice developers. Spotlighted during a session at the JavaOne conference in San Francisco this week, Frege is pure ...

A programming language that is based primarily on writing algorithms (functions). The syntax of functional programming (FP) is mathematical, and the languages are used for applications such as ...

“Clojure was instrumental in hiring that first round of programers,” an engineering manager said of the Center City company’s growth. Crossbeam engineers Nick McAvoy and Yiannis Nicolaou talking ...

Lux, a new Lisp-like functional language that runs on the Java Virtual Machine, has ambitions to pick up where similar languages leave off. Currently in an 0.5 beta release, Lux claims that while it ...