In “Functional Programming Patterns in Scala and Clojure” from Pragmatic Bookshelf, $36 paper, $24 ebook), readers will use Scala and Clojure to solve in-depth problems and see how familiar ...

Functional paradigm allows for pattern matching. Recursion, iteration is accomplished through recursion. Lazy evaluation -- an expression is evaluated only when required. Functional programming has ...

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.

Figure 7: Pattern matching in Kotlin If he could wave a magic wand, Kim would want everyone to learn a functional programming language, so they could experience the same joy he has found.

I've been trying to learn Haskell lately, and the hardest thing seems to be learning about monads. "Monads in Ruby" and "Monads for Functional Programming" helped me finally to break the ice, but more ...

Working with functional programming requires a shift in your thinking, but has benefits in productivity for programmer and maintainer alike We all learned about mathematical functions when we ...