The Resurgence of Functional Programming track at QCon Plus featured several experts describing how functional programming makes developing software a joyful experience. They also told why and how obj ...

For example, in regular programming you initialize a variable to some value: x = 1 return x * 2. This will return 2. But the value of the program can change when another programmer checks out that ...

Object Oriented Programming (OOP) and Functional Programming (FP) try to provide solutions for handling the software’s maintainability and complexity. OOP encapsulates away the complexity, while ...