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 of ...

Last time, we examined the advantages, benefits of programming using the functional paradigm, specifically, programming with Microsoft's Visual F#. I explained some of the syntactic sugars that allow ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

Functional programming with languages like Elixir and Clojure transforms e-commerce scaling from a costly infrastructure problem into a disciplined, modular challenge that businesses can solve with ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. If you want to master functional programming, the best place to start is with the Java Function ...

Functional programming languages will have a place in general application development when we can read their code at a glance Unless you’ve been living under a rock, you know functional programming is ...

Read an excerpt from the 4th Edition of the book Python Essential Reference by David Beazley. Excerpt from Python Essential Reference, 4th Edition. Substantial programs are broken up into functions ...