Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a long list of commands (instructions). In imperative programming, you write your code the way you ...

You see, we don’t get functional programming by starting with an imperative language and cutting off its legs. A purely functional subset of Java or C or Python would be miserable little languages.

Even with functional programming improvements in Java 8, Java remains an imperative, object-oriented programming language. It’s missing range types and other features that would make it more ...

This doesn’t mean that you should say goodbye to object-oriented programming and go completely functional instead. It is useful, however, to know about the basic principles so you can use them ...

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, ...

C# (pronounced see sharp) is a multi-paradigm programming language encompassing strong typing, imperative, declarative, functional, generic, object-oriented, and component-oriented programming ...

Java 8 adds functional programming through what are called lambda expressions, which is a simple way of describing a function as some operation on an arbitrary set of supplied variables. All of the ...

The open source and cross-platform F# is officially described as a "universal programming language," but it's primarily used in functional programming, which is centered around pure functions and ...