If I'm not mistaken, the concept of a "lazy imperative programming language" makes perfect sense. For example, I envision that the following code should cause the program to print "7" a <- 1 b...

I was reading an article on Declarative Programming Languages. If I don't understand the qualities of this type/paradigm of programming languages and it's contrast to Imperative languages, s...

Every now and then, I hear someone saying things like "functional programming languages are more mathematical". Is it so? If so, why and how? Is, for instance, Scheme more mathematical than Java or...

Suppose I write a program using immutable data structures in Java. Even though it is not a functional language, it should be able to execute parallely. How do I ensure that my program is being exec...

I don't really get lambda expressions. While they've been around since the days of ALGOL, I didn't start hearing about them until fairly recently, when Python and Ruby became very popular. No...