Suppose you are to build a software application for a startup from scratch, would functional programming be a better choice than imperative programming? Even though functional programming has been ...

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Although the first compiler for general-purpose, imperative programming language would not be delivered for three more years, September 20, 1954 marked the first run of a Fortran (Formula Translating) ...

One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a ...

A programming language is designed to describe a set of consecutive actions executed by a computer. A programming language is, therefore, a practical way for us humans to give instructions to a ...

I am wondering if we are reaching some sort of inflection point in the history of computer programming? An inflection point brought on primarily by the rise of so-called ‘virtual machines’. In ...