More specifically, functional programming is a set of approaches to coding, usually described as a programming paradigm. Functional programming is sometimes defined in opposition to object ...

Object-oriented versus functional programming. I’ve created a Java application that contrasts the imperative, object-oriented and declarative, functional programming approaches to writing code.

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, ...