Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. ... it isn’t essential to make it functional. It can be a nice addition, though.

In addition to touring Java 8’s functional programming capabilities, the second half of this tutorial will help you begin to think functionally, by converting an example of object-oriented Java ...

Working with functional programming requires a shift in your thinking, ... nested functions, and closures in addition to first-class and higher-order functions.

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 ...

In addition, traders script Mu apps that create trades and portfolios and provide speculative pricing and risk on them. New horizons. Proponents of functional programming believe it will continue to ...

LISP was the first functional programming language, followed by Erlang, Scheme, Haskell, OCaml, Scala, Clojure, F# and others. Advertisement. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY.

Purely functional programming is a brilliant idea with a misleading name. When people talk about “purely functional programming”, they mean Haskell or something like Haskell. But that’s not ...

Also See: Functional Programming, the .NET Way (Part 1) Last time, we examined the advantages, benefits of programming using the functional paradigm, specifically, programming with Microsoft's Visual ...

The functional programming tribe is unlikely to overthrow the imperative majority, but it may achieve many of its goals by stealth, by becoming an essential tool in the developers' kit.

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.