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 ...

While object-oriented code has uncountable virtues, those of functional code, therefore, shouldn’t be neglected. Learning some basic principles can often be enough to up your game as a developer ...

This code demonstrates both object-oriented and functional programming styles. The printEmployee1() method reveals the imperative, statement-oriented approach.

Even though object-oriented programming remains popular today, the vigorous development of functional programming during the last decades and the acceptance of many of its positive features (clean, ...

While it might be acceptable to mutate a member variable in procedural or object-oriented programming, in functional programming it's frowned upon to change the state of a variable outside the scope ...

Academic researchers have published a study investigating the effect of programming languages on software quality, concluding the issue is hard to quantify but also identifying significant findings, ...

Scala is an easy transition for those familiar with Java and object-oriented programming. But if you want to learn the basics of functional programming, Scheme is hands-down the best.

Facebook went with a novel programming methodology, called functional programming, to update the News Feed for its Apple iOS client, which helped considerably in tuning and debugging the app.

The previous code example illustrates four important points about functional programming: We can indeed think of the function f as a map between two sets of numbers. In terms of arr.map(f) where f is ...

However, once you’ve completed the move, you can take advantage of one of the best features of object-oriented programming—code reuse. Written by Kevin Brown, Contributor June 26, 2002 at 7:53 ...