In Functional programming for Java developers, Part 1, I used JavaScript examples to get you started with five functional programming techniques: pure functions, higher-order functions, lazy ...

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.

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 ...

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 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#.

Haskell is one of the most popular functional programming languages but it has not found much use in the embedded space.That is not likely to change in the near future but there ...

Functional programming supports well-defined, defensible software giving reproducible results. Object-oriented programming is the mechanism par excellence for managing complexity while keeping things ...

Functional programming has been used successfully in a wide range of applications including the financial sector. Haskell, a functional programming language, has been used in embedded applications.

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 ...