Functional programming concepts and terminology Functional programming is a programming style in which computations are codified as functional programming functions.

Microsoft's efforts to push dynamic and functional programming into the mainstream are one of many signs that the art of software development is enjoying a profound renaissance.

Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer ...

Functional programming is a significant paradigm shift in the software world over the past 10 years. Slowly but surely, it has moved from a niche feature of a few uncommonly used languages to a ...

We’ve refactored the original Sort application with a few functional programming features. Now we’re ready to write a completely functional Sort application.

The functional programming paradigm, which has been around for decades, has never gone out of style. In this two-part series, we look at Microsoft's implementation, Visual F#.

The tricky mathematical concepts of functional programming, such as category theory, lambda calculus and type theory, mean the style may never be as popular with budding coders as its imperative ...

The functional Predicate interface gets used extensively by the Java 8 Streams API. Any developer who wants to master functional programming in Java will need to be comfortable with the Predicate ...