According to Sperber, functional programming enables late architecture and reduces coupling compared to OOP. In order to defer macroarchitecture decisions, we must always decouple, Sperber argued.

Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer ...

InfoQ interviewed Phillip Carter, program manager at Microsoft, to talk about functional programming, F#, and the new features of F# 5.