To understand functional programming, we need to understand functions first. This might sound boring, but at the end of the day, it’s pretty insightful. So keep reading.

In this tutorial you’ve learned some basics of functional programming. We’ve used examples in JavaScript to study five core functional programming techniques, which we’ll further explore ...

A programming language that is based primarily on writing algorithms (functions). The syntax of functional programming (FP) is mathematical, and the languages are used for applications such as ...

The primary use of lambda is in specifying short callback functions. For example, if you wanted to sort a list of names with case-insensitivity, you might write this: names.sort(key=lambda n: n.lower( ...

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 ...

Purely functional programming is a brilliant idea with a misleading name. When people talk about “purely functional programming”, they mean Haskell or something like Haskell. But that’s not ...

Java EE8 will add a functional programming language capability, and marrying functional language programming with cloud parallelism should create new microservice models for enterprise applications.