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• Published Subscription Review Article 5 Nov 2024

  Role of Functional Programming Languages in Blockchain Applications

  By Atti Mangadevi, Yamuna Mundru, Manas Kumar Yogi

  Abstract: Functional programming (FP) languages play an increasingly influential role in blockchain applications, offering features that address critical challenges such as security, scalability, and reliability. The inherent characteristics of FP—immutability, pure functions, statelessness, and concurrency support—align well with blockchain’s decentralized and deterministic structure, making FP languages a natural fit for developing secure and verifiable smart contracts. Languages like Haskell, OCaml, and Erlang have proven effective in minimizing code errors, enabling formal …

  Published in Recent Trends in Programming languages · Vol. 11, Issue 3, 2024 · pp. 21–27 Read article →