Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer ...

Ernst and his team turned to functional programming, of which he is an admitted enthusiast, because of the growing headaches around managing and debugging the code used for populating each user ...

Programming in a functional style makes the state presented to your code explicit, which makes it much easier to reason about, and, in a completely pure system, makes thread race conditions ...

For the past two years, my day-to-day programming language has been Scala. Scala is a hybrid language that combines the approaches of object-orientation and functional programming.

Any time you’re writing code, it means the code is going to be doing work for you. Many times, the burden of that work is transparent to us and our users.

A programming language that is based primarily on writing algorithms (functions). The syntax of functional programming (FP) is mathematical, and the languages are used for applications such as ...

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 ...