The 10th annual International Conference on Functional Programming (ICFP) came to a close on September 28. Run by the Association for Computing Machinery's SIGPLAN group, ICFP is the premiere ...

Haskell is one of the most popular functional programming languages but it has not found much use in the embedded space. That is not likely to change in the near future but there are reasons for ...

Louis Brandy pauses before answering, needing some extra time to choose his words. “I’m going to get in so much trouble,” he says. The question, you see, touches on an eternally controversial topic: ...

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One of the most common patterns in popular programming is runtime polymorphism. As in, the ability to have a set of heterogeneous objects which can all perform a common action (like a set of shapes ...

Editor’s note: Robby Walker is co-founder and CTO of Cue. His previous company, Zenter, sold to Google in 2007. Follow him on Twitter @rwalker. Startups like Stripe, Weebly, and Cue have spent weeks ...