Functional programming means using functions to the best effect for creating clean and maintainable software. This article illustrates the concepts behind the functional paradigm with practical ...

The syntax of functional programming just isn’t readable at a glance. A couple of code snippets will show you what I mean. An example from Erlang:-module(listsort).-export([by_length/1]).

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, ...