Paul Chiusano and Rúnar Bjarnason's Functional Programming in Scala "is not a book about Scala," say the authors, rather it is a principled introduction to functional programming that relies on ...

Scala is designed to allow the functional programming style. But what does Scala functional programming actually mean? Let’s start with the fact that functional programs are immutable.

For the past two years, my day-to-day programming language has been Scala. Scala is a hybrid language that combines the approaches of object-orientation and functional programming. You can treat ...

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

Functional programming can offer a more productive style of software development, but it takes some getting used to. With the functional paradigm, which is enabled in languages like Haskell, Scala ...