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 ...

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 ...

In his latest blog post, Michael Feathers argued that object oriented programming languages offer some built-in features that facilitate testing and are therefore more recovery friendly than ...

Your first experience learning functional programming is going to be closer to your first experience learning programming at all than your experience learning your tenth object-oriented language.

“Object-Oriented Programming (OOP) has been created with one goal in mind -- to manage the complexity of procedural codebases. In other words, it was supposed to improve code organisation ...

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.

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 ...

Before Object Oriented Programming One of the easiest ways to understand what is meant by ‘object oriented’, is to define what it is not. Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were ...

Object-oriented versus functional programming I’ve created a Java application that contrasts the imperative, object-oriented and declarative, functional programming approaches to writing code.