The paper discusses the tendency of interpenetration of ideas and technologies of functional and imperative paradigms of programming in their modern implementation. A new functional-imperative ...

Understanding Functional Programming At its foundation, functional programming is a programming paradigm that views computing as the execution of mathematical functions rather than changing-state or ...

The paradigm of functional programming was openly created to base a functional approach to problem-solving. Declarative programming is a form of functional programming; in contrast, most languages ...

Functional programming is a significant paradigm shift in the software world over the past 10 years. Slowly but surely, it has moved from a niche feature of a few uncommonly used languages to a ...

What is something you wish you knew when you first started functional programming? This question was originally answered on Quora by Tikhon Jelvis.

Suppose you are to build a software application for a startup from scratch, would functional programming be a better choice than imperative programming?