JavaScript is a flexible language, allowing for all sorts of styles and programming paradigms. Although this breadth sometimes comes at a cost to readability or consistency across a code base, it ...

In the past two columns, we’ve looked at higher-order functions and talked a little bit about the power of functional programming. So far, the concepts we’ve covered do little to indicate how ...

Figure 1. Functional JavaScript is available as an ebook (without DRM) from O'Reilly or as a paperback. Anyone who has followed my missives on programming have noted the varied exposure to ...

Understanding the 7 principles of functional programming Java and C++ ushered in object-oriented programming, but now Python and JavaScript popularize functional programming. These seven principles of ...

Purely functional programming is a brilliant idea with a misleading name. When people talk about “purely functional programming”, they mean Haskell or something like Haskell. But that’s not ...

Event details about Functional Programming in JavaScript in San Francisco on May 4, 2017 - watch, listen, photos and tickets ...

Facebook went with a novel programming methodology, called functional programming, to update the News Feed for its Apple iOS client, which helped considerably in tuning and debugging the app ...

Java, JavaScript and Python are invariably the three most popular programming languages in several indexes, but their exact order varies depending on how the ranking is calculated. Lately most ...