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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

Understanding the 7 principles of functional programming Java and C++ ushered in object-oriented programming, but now Python and JavaScript popularize functional programming. These seven principles of ...

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

Chapter 6: Functions and Functional Programming Substantial programs are broken up into functions for better modularity and ease of maintenance. Python makes it easy to define functions but also ...

Purely functional programming is a brilliant idea with a misleading name. When people talk about “purely functional programming”, they mean Haskell or something like Haskell. But that’s not ...