Functional programming, as the name implies, is about functions. While functions are part of just about every programming paradigm, including JavaScript, a functional programmer has unique ...

JavaScript’s arrays can hold heterogeneous types, change size on the fly, and readily insert or remove elements. Traditional methods like slice, splice, and push/pop do this by operating on the array ...

Functional programming has been around for the last 60 years, but so far it’s always been a niche phenomenon. Although game-changers like Google rely on its key concepts, the average programmer of ...

Functional programming languages are (in my experience - thus far Scheme and Lisp) allergic to bit-level twiddling. For example, writing a program that returns the SHA-1 cryptographically secure ...

You could say reactive programming is like functional programming with superpowers. Let's take a look at this dynamic programming style. Reactive programming is an important facet of modern software ...

A: The comp.lang.functional FAQ describes functional programming this way: “Functional programming is a style of programming that emphasizes the evaluation of expressions, rather than execution of ...

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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 ...