The preceding examples offer a hands-on understanding of functional programming in a focused context, but functional programming is intended to drive greater benefits to programming in the large.

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 ...

Functional programming examples In the next sections, we’ll explore five core techniques used in functional programming: pure functions, higher-order functions, lazy evaluation, closures, and ...

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The functional programming paradigm, which has been around for decades, has never gone out of style. In this two-part series, we look at Microsoft's implementation, Visual F#.

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 ...

Michael Sperber spoke about software architecture and functional programming at OOP 2023 Digital. Sperber gave the example of dividing up the system’s code among its building blocks.

Purely functional programming is a brilliant idea with a misleading name. When people talk about “purely functional programming”, they mean Haskell or something like Haskell. But that’s not ...

Paul Chiusano and Rúnar Bjarnason's Functional Programming in Scala "is not a book about Scala," say the authors, rather it is a principled introduction to functional programming that relies on ...

Also See: Functional Programming, the .NET Way (Part 1) Last time, we examined the advantages, benefits of programming using the functional paradigm, specifically, programming with Microsoft's Visual ...