Why Functional Programming Matters
Conference
Alternate Languages
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Room 1 |
Wednesday at 14:00 - 14:50 |
In the latter half of the 2000s, a new kind of programming language seemed poised to take the steam out of the dominancen of object-oriented programming languages and their hold over "mainstream" development. But these new languages, collectively referred to as "functional" languages, were nothing new. In fact, they've been a part of the language landscape since the late 80s, and arguably even longer than that. What makes a functional language, and what makes a functional language interesting? Most importantly, why do we care now, thirty years after their introduction? |
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Ted Neward
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Ted is the CTO of iTrellis, an IT full-lifecycle management and custom software development shop located in Seattle, WA. He's spent quality time on several different platforms, starting with DOS 3.3 and Windows 3.0, all the way up through the JVM, .NET, NodeJS, Android, iOS, and a few others along the way. He's a programming language aficionado, having written production code in ten different languages, and experiments/prototypes/spikes in a dozen more. He resides in Seattle with his wife, two sons, two pets, four desktops, eight laptops, ten mobile devices, and a rather scary electricity bill. |