Last time, we examined the advantages, benefits of programming using the functional paradigm, specifically, programming with Microsoft's Visual F#. I explained some of the syntactic sugars that allow ...

Python, for all its power and popularity, has long lacked a form of flow control found in other languages—a way to take a value and match it elegantly against one of a number of possible conditions.

Two OpenJDK draft proposals would enhance the expressiveness of pattern matching in Java and boost data-oriented queries, potentially previewing in Java 17. Java programming is set to be enhanced with ...