Many Python fans have longed for the language to adopt functional programming features. Now they can get those features without having to switch to a new Python implementation. Coconut, a newly ...

Lambdascript, a pure functional language built atop Python 3, provides a bridge between Python and functional programming, in yet another nod to a software development paradigm that has been ...

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 ...

Moving from object-oriented to functional programming is a paradigm shift for developers, but these key principles explain why it's worth the effort.

If the inclusions of functional programming principles in Python and other languages are of any significance, however, then functional programming seems to be gaining traction.

From imperative programming came the languages C, Java and Python, while functional programming gave us Lisp, Haskell and F#.

Developers are still using Python for data tasks and AI, but many are still using older releases, putting productivity at risk.

Guido van Rossum, who created popular programming language Python 30 years ago, has outlined his ambitions to make it twice as fast – addressing a key weakness of Python compared to faster ...

The next time you're streaming Netflix, you can thank popular programming language Python and the developers who use it for much of the experience. According to Python developers at Netflix, the ...