For example, in regular programming you initialize a variable to some value: x = 1 return x * 2. This will return 2. But the value of the program can change when another programmer checks out that ...

Functional programming with Java. Many developers don’t realize it, but it was possible to write functional programs in Java before Java 8. In order to have a well-rounded view of functional ...

Functional programming is a coding style that emphasizes ideas such as composition from simple building blocks, immutability of data structures and the use of functions as data. In recent years, ideas ...

I've been trying to learn Haskell lately, and the hardest thing seems to be learning about monads. "Monads in Ruby" and "Monads for Functional Programming" helped me finally to break the ice, but more ...

I found the book Introduction to Functional Programming (Richard Bird and Philip Wadler, Prentice Hall International Series in Computing Science, 1992) ...