Many Python fans have longed for the language to adopt functional programming features. Now they can get those features without having to switch to a new Python implementation. Coconut, a newly ...

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]).

The syntax of functional programming (FP) is mathematical, and the languages are used for applications such as artificial intelligence and distributed networks, ...

But no. Functional programming isn’t what it isn’t. Functional programmers aren’t ascetics. Haskell is not a “bondage and discipline” language. (If I’m into both, it’s just a ...

¹ One of the “functional programming myths” I wrote about before is that “functional programming” is well-defined. It isn’t, and, even if we gave it a definition, the name would be a ...

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, ...

"True functional programming is highly abstract and can be seen as a bit academic, ... "It is relatively easy to learn the syntax but very difficult to use the language properly," he says.

Java EE8 will add a functional programming language capability, and marrying functional language programming with cloud parallelism should create new microservice models for enterprise applications.

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 ...