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 ...

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.

One more than one occasion, I’ve found myself yearning for a more functional paradigm that facilitates easier concurrency programming on the JVM.

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 ...