Functions are fundamental to code organization; they exist in all higher order programming languages. Generally, functional programming means using functions to the best effect for creating clean ...

Compared to Java, Kotlin is safer, more concise, and more explicit. It supports functional programming in addition to object-oriented programming, offers a bunch of useful features (extension ...

(The XKCD comic’s alt-text reads “Functional programming combines the flexibility and power of abstract mathematics with the intuitive clarity of abstract mathematics”.) ...

It was a clarion call to evolve “functional programming” from mathematical esoterica to a practical tool. Programming paradigms are mainly divided into “imperative programming” and “func ...

But there's one tribal divide that goes back to the very beginning of modern computing: that between functional and imperative programming. Professor Simon-Peyton Jones, an advocate of functional ...