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, ...

Rewrite object-oriented code using functional techniques. Get started with lambdas, method references, functional interfaces, and the Streams API in Java Welcome back to this two-part tutorial ...

You see, we don’t get functional programming by starting with an imperative language and cutting off its legs. A purely functional subset of Java or C or Python would be miserable little languages.

Independently from each other, Richard Warburton in a presentation, and Mark Seemann in a blog post both talks about object-orientation and the SOLID design principles from a functional ...

Scala is an easy transition for those familiar with Java and object-oriented programming. But if you want to learn the basics of functional programming, Scheme is hands-down the best.

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 ...

The open source and cross-platform F# is officially described as a "universal programming language," but it's primarily used in functional programming, which is centered around pure functions and ...

Java is transitioning into a functional programming language, introducing direct support for cloud computing and returning to its embedded-device roots, all at the same time. Already the world's most ...

Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java ...