First of all, what's the difference between decomposing a problem into manageable parts and seeing and applying recurring patterns? Well, the former can be done in slightly different fashions for ...

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 ...

Figure 1. Functional JavaScript is available as an ebook (without DRM) from O'Reilly or as a paperback. Anyone who has followed my missives on programming have noted the varied exposure to different ...

Functional programming languages work on an entirely different level than widely understood procedural and object-oriented programming techniques. The functional language approach is to create ...

An increasing number of developers are now able to embed functional programming inside of traditional programming languages, including those found within the codebases of enterprise-level software ...

What is something you wish you knew when you first started functional programming? originally appeared on Quora: the place to gain and share knowledge, empowering people to learn from others and ...

A tutorial on integrating Lua as a simple scripting language into a Windows C++ RPG engine. Lua is an extension programming language designed to support general procedural programming with data ...

JavaScript is a flexible language, allowing for all sorts of styles and programming paradigms. Although this breadth sometimes comes at a cost to readability or consistency across a code base, it also ...

This is sort of back on topic. I enjoy perusing the online writing of Edsger Dijkstra (online at the University of Texas). Today I stumbled upon this gem (in PDF). He isn't talking about functional ...