Lambdascript, a pure functional language built atop Python 3, provides a bridge between Python and functional programming, in yet another nod to a software development paradigm that has been ...

Many Python fans have longed for the language to adopt functional programming features. Now they can get those features without having to switch to a new Python implementation. Coconut, a newly ...

Dean Wampler supports using Functional Programming and its core operations to process large amounts of data, explaining why Java’s dominance in Hadoop is harming Big Data’s progress.

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 ...

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 ...