But no. Functional programming isn’t what it isn’t. Functional programmers aren’t ascetics. Haskell is not a “bondage and discipline” language. (If I’m into both, it’s just a ...

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 ...

Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer ...

What is functional programming? Before we wander too far off, let’s take a step back to briefly refresh our understanding of what essential characteristics functional programming possesses.

Functional programming with Java. Many developers don’t realize it, but it was possible to write functional programs in Java before Java 8. In order to have a well-rounded view of functional ...

In functional programming, there are two varieties of functions: first-order functions and pure functions. First-order functions. A first-order function takes standard data types (string, number, ...

Functional programming is declarative. Functional programming uses function composition. Functional programming prefers recursion over loops. Let's look at each of these in more detail. Functions are ...

Functional programming has “increased our reliability in a really big way,” said Adam Ernst, an engineer based at Facebook’s New York office, who oversaw the effort to rebuild the News Feed ...

Functional programming has more expressive, legible and elegant code. The basis for functional programming has its basis in lambda calculus. Lambda calculus is a mathematical theory originated in the ...

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.