The preceding examples offer a hands-on understanding of functional programming in a focused context, but functional programming is intended to drive greater benefits to programming in the large.

Example 8.10: Quadratic Programming The quadratic program can be solved by solving an equivalent linear complementarity problem when H is positive semidefinite. The approach is outlined in the ...

A procedure is a subroutine that performs a specific task. When the task is complete, the subroutine ends and the main program continues from where it left off. For example, a procedure may be ...

This example shows how to use PROC LP to solve a linear goal-programming problem. PROC LP has the ability to solve a series of linear programs, each with a new objective function. These objective ...

For example, the same variable name could be used in several subroutines, meaning the programmer does not have to worry about always using a different variable name.

The java.util.function package contains well over 40 different components, but if you can garner a good understanding of consumers, predicates, functions, unary types and suppliers, knowledge of the ...