You see, we don’t get functional programming by starting with an imperative language and cutting off its legs. A purely functional subset of Java or C or Python would be miserable little languages.

I’ve created a Java application that contrasts the imperative, object-oriented and declarative, functional programming approaches to writing code. Study the code below and then I’ll point out ...

The functional programming tribe is unlikely to overthrow the imperative majority, but it may achieve many of its goals by stealth, by becoming an essential tool in the developers' kit.

A programming language that is based primarily on writing algorithms (functions). The syntax of functional programming (FP) is mathematical, and the languages are used for applications such as ...

Working with functional programming requires a shift in your thinking, but has benefits in productivity for programmer and maintainer alike We all learned about mathematical functions when we ...

A functional programming language takes a different approach to problem-solving from the traditional procedural or imperative model of programming that all popular programming languages support. The ...