Incanter is a powerful library for statistical computing in clojure. The expressiveness and power of clojure and Incanter can be combined with the convenience and availability of the REPL to quickly answer statistical questions about your data. This data m...

It's long been known that Haskell's type class system can be used to express computations which, being on the type level, are performed by the type checker and hence are performed at compile time. Scala's implicit definitions and parameters can be used to ...

The purpose of most of the real-world applications is to process data that are available in external data sources such as databases and XML files or obtained using a web service or REST API. Accessing such data sources in a typed way is difficult, because ...

A domain-specific language (DSL) is a usually small language for a dedicated domain with its own unique appearance and rules for composition. Haskell has a very flexible syntax, and offers higher-order functions. Therefore, we can often mimic the visual st...

In this talk we will discuss Akka and how it is used in a couple of zeebox components, first to implement a high-throughput and low latency RESTful/streaming event service. Second, to provide a clustered service tracking the state and behaviour of thousan...

When building a large web application, functional languages are not the first technology that comes to mind. However, thanks to WebSharper, F# is a more than suitable tool for this task. WebSharper is a framework dedicated to building web applications in F...

Robert Pickering opens the 2012 Functional Programming eXchange: with tea, coffee and breakfast pastries!

David Pollak's Visi.Pro project provides a simple and powerful way for anybody to write programs for the iPad. The Visi language (open sourced at http://visi.io) is a statically typed, lazy, pure functional language. Some people might see that the language...