Some network teams are finding power and simplicity in the shift from telling devices what to do—imperative programming—to describing what they should be—declarative programming.

In a variety of venues, the application of declarative programming practices and principles are starting to expand in ways that solve many long-standing frustrations with making technology work ...

Functional programming is a significant paradigm shift in the software world over the past 10 years. Slowly but surely, it has moved from a niche feature of a few uncommonly used languages to a ...

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