Paul O’Rorke

According to Michael Swain, Editor at Large of Dr. Dobb’s Journal, a paradigm shift is underway and functional programming is “on the verge of becoming a must-have skill.”  In the cover story of the January, 2009 issue of Dr. Dobb’s Journal, “It’s Time to Get Good at Functional Programming” Swain argues that functional programming is better suited to parallel computation than procedural and object-oriented programming and will be needed to more fully exploit multi-core and multi-CPU computer systems.

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