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Functional programming is a style of programming emphasizing evaluating expressions, rather than executing commands. Functional languages are those supporting and encouraging programming in a functional style, where expressions are formed by using functions to combine basic values. On this page, languages are arranged in three groups and levels: 1) Top group: issues spanning multiple unrelated languages. 2) Middle group: types or classes of languages. 3) Bottom group: specific languages, with their own directory category.

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• Afnix Programming Language

  http://www.afnix.org/
  A multi-threaded functional programming language with dynamic symbol bindings which provides a state of art runtime engine for 32- and 64-bit platform and a rich set of platform independent libraries, compatible with C++ runtime operations, automatic protection engine for shared objects. Successor of Aleph.

• Aldor

  http://www.aldor.org/
  Functional language in which types are first class values. Normal functions returning types reproduce the features of template classes of other languages. Links to many projects around the world based on Aldor.

• CDuce

  http://www.cduce.org/
  An XML centric programming language with higher order, semantic subtyping, pattern matching and overloading, and open source implementation.

• Charity

  http://pll.cpsc.ucalgary.ca/charity1/www/home.html
  Functional, categorical language, by University of Calgary, Canada. Innovative organization: based on theory of strong categorical datatypes divided into 2 subclasses: inductive (built up by constructors in the familiar way), and coinductive (broken down by destructors).

• Disclojure

  http://disclojure.org/
  Daily news about the Clojure programming languange.

• Eden

  http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~eden/
  Parallel functional language to program reactive systems and parallel algorithms using distributed memory. Extends Haskell, but overrules lazy evaluation whenever needed to support parallelism.

• FAQ for comp.lang.functional

  http://www.cs.nott.ac.uk/~gmh/faq.html
  Offers documentation as a frequently asked questions list. Also provides links to general topic, technical and other resources.

• Functional Programming

  http://www.cs.kent.ac.uk/people/staff/cr3/FP/
  Claus Reinke's , well organized bookmarks on FP.

• Functional programming for the JVM

  http://www.fun4j.org/
  A framework integrating major concepts from functional programming into the Java Platform.

• Functional Programming in the Real World

  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/realworld/
  Lists functional programs written primarily to perform to real-world tasks. Has pure programs (no side effects) and impure (some use of side effects). Languages: Caml, Clean, Erlang, Haskell, Miranda, Scheme, Standard ML.

• ICFP 2002

  http://icfp2002.cs.brown.edu/
  The 2002 International Conference on Functional Programming covers the entire spectrum of functional programming, from practice to theory, and from established functional programming languages (Scheme, ML, Haskell) to novel language designs and to the functional aspects of object-oriented or concurrent languages. October 4-6, 2002 Pittsburgh, PA, USA.

• Lemon

  http://people.cis.ksu.edu/~bhoward/lemon.html
  Functional language with inductive and coinductive types. Based on simply-typed lambda calculus augmented with sums, products, and mu and nu constructors for least (inductive) and greatest (coinductive) solutions to recursive type equations.

• Links: Linking Theory to Practice for the Web

  http://groups.inf.ed.ac.uk/links/
  Functional language to solve impedance mismatch problem by using one language for all 3 tiers of web programming: front-end browser, middle-tier server, back-end database; people, mail lists, papers, talks, wiki, downloads.

• Mondrian

  http://kahu.zoot.net.nz/
  A simple functional scripting language for Internet applications.

• NESL: A Parallel Programming Language

  http://www.cs.cmu.edu/~scandal/nesl.html
  Parallel functional language developed at Carnegie Mellon, SCandAL project. Most important new ideas: nested data parallelism, language based performance model.

• PLAN: A Packet Language for Active Networks

  http://www.cis.upenn.edu/~dsl/PLAN/
  Resource-bounded functional language that uses a form of remote procedure call to realize active networking. Part of the SwitchWare Project. Descriptions, documents, downloads, contacts, links.

• Q Equational Programming Language

  http://q-lang.sourceforge.net/
  An extensible functional programming language based on the term rewriting calculus.

• Readscheme.org - Resources for Functional Programming

  http://readscheme.org/
  A variety of research resources on functional programming languages, implementation, and applications of functional programming languages.

• Rita Loogen

  http://www.mathematik.uni-marburg.de/~loogen/
  Member of Eden team. Articles.

• Scala Programming Language

  http://www.scala-lang.org/
  General purpose programming language designed to express common programming patterns in a concise, elegant, and type-safe way.

• The Agda Wiki

  http://wiki.portal.chalmers.se/agda/
  Home page for the Agda 2, a dependently typed functional programming language.

• The Pizza Compiler

  http://pizzacompiler.sourceforge.net/
  Java extension with functional features: generics (parametric polymorphism), function pointers (first-class (higher-order) functions), class cases and pattern matching (algebraic (data)types).

• The Rise of Functional Languages

  http://www.linuxjournal.com/node/1000217/
  Brief article, explains what they are, and how and why their popularity is growing; with links and reader comments. Linux Journal.

• The Unlambda Programming Language

  http://www.madore.org/~david/programs/unlambda/
  A functional language designed for obscurity

• Tutorial Papers in Functional Programming

  http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/tutorials.html
  John Hughes' list of FP-related tutorials and courses.

• Wadler: Monads

  http://homepages.inf.ed.ac.uk/wadler/topics/monads.html
  Information on monads and functional programming

• What the Hell are Monads?

  http://web.cecs.pdx.edu/~antoy/Courses/TPFLP/lectures/MONADS/Noel/research/monads.html
  Basic introduction to monads, monadic programming, and I/O.

• Whiley

  http://whiley.org/
  A hybrid object-oriented and functional programming language which compiles to the JVM.

• Why Functional Programming Matters

  http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.html
  A paper by John Hughes from 1984 along with some translations distributed on the author web site.

• Wikipedia: Functional Programming

  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Functional_programming
  Encyclopdia article including a definition, comparison, history, and examples.

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