¹ One of the “functional programming myths” I wrote about before is that “functional programming” is well-defined. It isn’t, and, even if we gave it a definition, the name would be a ...

The preceding examples offer a hands-on understanding of functional programming in a focused context, but functional programming is intended to drive greater benefits to programming in the large.

A functional language focuses on programming with pure functions, making it easy and powerful to do so, says Odersky, who founded Typesafe, the provider of the Typesafe JVM application development ...

In functional programming languages, you have first-class functions (functions that can be passed around just like any other value) and higher-order functions (functions that take other functions ...

However, it does give you many of the features of a functional language, and as such will be easy to learn. Microsoft too is moving much of its language focus to functional programming, as it ...

If you want to master functional programming, the best place to start is with the Java Function interface. This example will show you four different ways to implement this functional interface in your ...

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 ...

It’s a functional language, so it provides good support for programming functions. “You can create a function, and pass it to another function, and have that function return an array of ...

There have been a number of programming languages that are specifically designed for functional programming, some of which have been around for decades, such as Haskell, Lisp, Scheme, ML and, more ...

Today, most programming languages use different types of structural paradigms (such as functions and object-oriented programming), but the easy-to-grasp syntax of BASIC, with its plain English ...