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 ...

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 ...

Overview The right Python libraries can dramatically improve speed, efficiency, and maintainability in 2025 ...

Map and reduce. Loops are not a thing in functional programming. Consider these Python loops: For the simple operations that you’re trying to do, this code is rather long.

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 ...

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 ...

Professor Simon-Peyton Jones, an advocate of functional programming since the 1980s and a major contributor to the Haskell language, is the first to admit that his tribe is a minority.

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 ...