traditionally object-oriented languages have added functional support... and yet there’s been some confusion about what functional programming actually means. Traditionally, folks often think that ...

That's what functional programming is. In the mid-1980s, however, there was a new paradigm making its way into computer programming, and it was what all the cool (read higher paid) code kids were ...

Functional programming is sometimes defined in opposition to object-oriented programming (OOP) and procedural programming. That is misleading as these approaches are not mutually exclusive and ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

Paul Louth had a great development team at Meddbase, the healthcare software company he founded in 2005. But as the company grew, so did their bug count. That’s expected, up to a point. More code and ...

When developing applications, programmers must follow certain rules linked to the programming languages implicated in the developing process. These rules are not only syntactical or semantic but also ...