Java 8 introduced Java developers to functional programming with lambda expressions. This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming ...

Neal Ford coined the term functional thinking to describe the mental shift required from developers trained primarily in object-oriented programming, who want to integrate functional programming ...

Functional programming is a coding style that emphasizes ideas such as composition from simple building blocks, immutability of data structures and the use of functions as data. In recent years, ideas ...

Microsoft has announced that support for the F# functional programming language will be fully integrated into Visual Studio. This marks a bold new commitment to facilitating functional programming on ...

Most of the discussions we have in the software industry today revolve around developer productivity: How do we make it possible for fewer developers to produce more software in less time? Reducing ...

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Quantum computing has been promised to enable exponential speed-up in certain computational problems and has the potential to revolutionise the simulation of physical systems, with implications in ...

This course will provide you with the practical skills to write programs that utilise combined object and functional patterns of computation. • Apply industry-strength tools in the development of an ...

Somewhere, somebody is going to hate me for saying this, but if I were to try to explain monads to a Java programmer unfamiliar with functional programming, I would say: "Monad is a design pattern ...