Kotlin has data classes. A lot of the object oriented languages now are adding much easier ways, much better syntax for constructing objects. Walk us through what's going on here, in this Case Class.

Object-oriented programming has a lot of well-established design principles, such as the SOLID principles, but when moving towards functional programming many developers don’t know how to use ...

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, ...

Editor's note: Andrew Mager is reporting from the Future of Web Apps (FOWA 2010) conference, held in Miami from February 22 to 24. Click here to read all of his coverage.

John M. Chambers, Object-Oriented Programming, Functional Programming and R, Statistical Science, Vol. 29, No. 2 (May 2014), pp. 167-180 ...