Functional programming and procedural programming often provide different views of the same thing. When I declare a function, such as y = 2x I may think of this as a procedure (sequential process ...

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, ...

In-Depth Functional Programming, the .NET Way, Part 2 We looked at the basic features of functional programming with Visual F#. In this second part, we take it a bit farther and look at creating ...

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 ...