Functional programming supports well-defined, defensible software giving reproducible results. Object-oriented programming is the mechanism par excellence for managing complexity while keeping things ...

In his latest blog post, Michael Feathers argued that object oriented programming languages offer some built-in features that facilitate testing and are therefore more recovery friendly than ...

Kotlin seamlessly blends object-oriented and functional programming, allowing for the gradual adoption of functional concepts in existing codebases.

Academic researchers have published a study investigating the effect of programming languages on software quality, concluding the issue is hard to quantify but also identifying significant findings, ...

Scala is an easy transition for those familiar with Java and object-oriented programming. But if you want to learn the basics of functional programming, Scheme is hands-down the best.

This Java release effectively notified developers that it’s no longer sufficient to think about Java programming only from the imperative, object-oriented perspective.

Functional programming is more like getting up to a chalkboard and writing an equation. You know how it's gonna work every time. Writing what should be done, instead of how.

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Users are advised to get on board with object-oriented programming sooner rather than later, because OOP is the future.