Functional programming and procedural programming often provide different views of the same thing. When I declare a function, such as y = 2x I may think of this as a procedure (sequential process ...

What is functional programming? Before we wander too far off, let’s take a step back to briefly refresh our understanding of what essential characteristics functional programming possesses.

Academic researchers have published a study investigating the effect of programming languages on software quality, concluding the issue is hard to quantify but also identifying significant findings, ...

In functional programming, there are two varieties of functions: first-order functions and pure functions. First-order functions. A first-order function takes standard data types (string, number, ...