It doesn’t mean that you need functional programming to understand map and reduce, either. It’s just that when you’re abstracting loops, these functions pop up rather a lot.

Even though functional programming has been around for over half a century, it has never gained the kind of popularity anywhere near what imperative programming (e.g. C, Java) achieved.

Functional programming encourages expression-oriented programming, so you’ll want to avoid using statements as much as possible. For example, suppose you want to replace Java’s if – else ...

In-Depth Functional Programming, the .NET Way 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 ...

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.

Key idioms in functional programming involve currying (partially applying functions) and using the map, filter, and reduce constructs for engaging with data structures.

Juniper is a functional reactive programming language for the Arduino platform. What that means is that you’ll be writing your code using anonymous functions, map/fold operations, recursion, and ...