This example might not be considered the purest form of functional programming, but it utilizes key functional characteristics such as “first-order functions.” ...

This small example shows why functional programming works exceptionally well in web server applications due to their nature of handling well-defined input and output transformations.

Code examples in these sections will get you started with pure functions, higher-order functions, lazy evaluation, closures, and currying. Functional programming is on the rise ...

Chapter 6: Functions and Functional Programming Substantial programs are broken up into functions for better modularity and ease of maintenance. Python makes it easy to define functions but also ...

Functional programming is a significant paradigm shift in the software world over the past 10 years. Slowly but surely, it has moved from a niche feature of a few uncommonly used languages to a ...

The advocates of functional programming say this is example of being able to catch an entire class of errors at compile time, leading to more predictable, reliable, and stable code.

¹ One of the “functional programming myths” I wrote about before is that “functional programming” is well-defined. It isn’t, and, even if we gave it a definition, the name would be a ...

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 ...