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| | Purpose of this post is to providea glimpse of the new features included in Java 8 that shiftthis language towards a more Functional Programming paradigm. But before, let's define what we understand for Functional Programming (FP). Functional programming key characteristics include: Higher Order Functions Pure Functions and Immutability Tail Call Recursion Higher Order Functions for a FP language means that functions are considered first class citizens, allowing the programmer to use them as any other value the language defines, for example, a Function value:
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| | A selection of functional programming concepts that I feel are helpful to all developers.
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| | But first What is functional programming ? Functional programming is a programming paradigm in which most computation is treated as evaluation of functions. It emphasizes on expression evaluation instead of command execution. Wikipedia When did it all start ? In the 90s, there was a war between declarative programming and imperative programming. Declarative programming then represented by logic programming languages like Prolog and early functional languages like Erlang. And imperative languages were r...
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| Python is okay, I guess, but there's not a hint of music to it. I'm a dyed-in-the-wool Perl programmer since 4.036 days. When I think of how I'll solve a programming problem, I th...