http://www.defmacro.org/ramblings/fp.html This article was a great overview of many of the aspects of functional programming. With what Micosoft is doing to the CLR and C# and VB it would seem that functional programming is making advances into the main stream. His article has imaginary Java samples...

[ LINQ via C# series ] Declarative vs. imperative This post mentioned that LINQ introduced new programming constructs to C#. Take a look at the samples in the beginning post : int [] source = new int [] { 0, -5, 12, -54, 5, -67, 3, 6 }; List < int > results = new List < int >(); foreach ...