Lambdascript, a pure functional language built atop Python 3, provides a bridge between Python and functional programming, in yet another nod to a software development paradigm that has been ...

Many Python fans have longed for the language to adopt functional programming features. Now they can get those features without having to switch to a new Python implementation. Coconut, a newly ...

Functional Programming has been around for quit e some time. Its characteristic features include high order functions, lazy evaluation, side-effect freeness, etc. These characteristics are ...

Even though object-oriented programming remains popular today, the vigorous development of functional programming during the last decades and the acceptance of many of its positive features (clean, ...

What is something you wish you knew when you first started functional programming? This question was originally answered on Quora by Tikhon Jelvis.

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 ...

Chapter 6: Functions and Functional Programming Substantial programs are broken up into functions for better modularity and ease of maintenance. Python makes it easy to define functions but also ...