Lambdascript, a pure functional language built atop Python 3, provides a bridge between Python and functional programming, in yet another nod to a software development paradigm that has been ...

Python: Python actively encourages functional programming. You can see this by the fact that every function has, by default, at least one input, self. This is very much à la the Zen of Python ...

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 object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

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 ...

A purely functional subset of Java or C or Python would be miserable little languages. If that’s how you expect an actual functional language to work, well, expect to be miserable too.

Microsoft has announced that support for the F# functional programming language will be fully integrated into Visual Studio. This marks a bold new commitment to facilitating functional programming ...

Even though object-oriented programming remains popular today, the vigorous development of functional programming during the last decades and the acceptance of many of its positive features (clean, ...

Facebook went with a novel programming methodology, called functional programming, to update the News Feed for its Apple iOS client, which helped considerably in tuning and debugging the app ...

Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer ...