Reactive programming is an important facet of modern software development. It’s often described as a paradigm, but what does that mean? A more useful description is that reactive programming is ...

In this piece we’ll look at COBOL’s origins, how the design of the programming language stands out even today, and what makes COBOL both so enduring and so intractable.

But no. Functional programming isn’t what it isn’t. Functional programmers aren’t ascetics. Haskell is not a “bondage and discipline” language. (If I’m into both, it’s just a ...