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Series Links An Overview Themes at OSCON 2014 Adopting the Functional Paradigm? Retrospective on Paradigms The Rise of Polyglotism Preparing for the Future Survivors' Breakfast The previous post covered some thoughts on the future-looking programming...

(This article was originally published at Darren Wilkinson's research blog, and syndicated at StatsBlogs.) Introduction People regularly ask me about books and other resources for getting started with Scala for statistical computing and data science...

Elixir is a functional, meta-programmable language that is built on top of the Erlang VM. Created by Jose Valim in 2011, it has recently gained a lot of interest, especially amongst Ruby and Erlang programmers. Joe Armstrong, one of the inventors of...

Python is not a strict functional programming (fp) language in the sense that say Haskell is. Python includes functional programming though as well as object-oriented and imperative (aka procedural). But it’s the functional programming aspects that...

Hadoop is the standard tool for distributed computing across really large data sets and is the reason why you see "Big Data" on advertisements as you walk through the airport. It has become an operating system for Big Data, providing a rich ecosystem...