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.

You see, we don’t get functional programming by starting with an imperative language and cutting off its legs. A purely functional subset of Java or C or Python would be miserable little languages.

Working with functional programming requires a shift in your thinking, but has benefits in productivity for programmer and maintainer alike We all learned about mathematical functions when we ...

The paradigms have been adopted, and adapted, distinctively in R. Functional programming motivates much of R but R does not enforce the paradigm. Object-oriented programming from a functional ...