In addition to touring Java 8’s functional programming capabilities, the second half of this tutorial will help you begin to think functionally, by converting an example of object-oriented Java ...

Object-oriented programming allows procedures about objects to be created whose exact type is not known until runtime. For example, a screen cursor may change its shape from an arrow to a line ...

Even though object-oriented programming remains popular today, the vigorous development of functional programming during the last decades and the acceptance of many of its positive features (clean, ...

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, ...

Waste of time says, full-stack engineer Senior full-stack engineer Ilya Suzdalnitski has published a lively 6,000 word essay calling object-oriented programming "a trillion dollar disaster".

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In object-oriented programming, the properties on an object are called members. Adding behavior So far, the Dog class is useful for keeping all our properties together, which is an example of ...

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 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 ...

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.