In Functional programming for Java developers, Part 1, I used JavaScript examples to get you started with five functional programming techniques: pure functions, higher-order functions, lazy ...

Lambda expressions are lightweight, highly concise anonymous methods backed by functional interfaces in Java 8. You can use them to leap forward into a whole new world of programming in Java. With ...

Elliott Rusty Harold is blogging that functional programming in Java is dangerous . He's wrong, and he's way late to the party on this one--it's coming to Java whether he likes it or not.

The Java language and virtual machine are almost two decades old, and while most developers would recognize the old and new models of Java as being related, there's no question that Java has changed ...

The functional Predicate interface gets used extensively by the Java 8 Streams API. Any developer who wants to master functional programming in Java will need to be comfortable with the Predicate ...

That’s about to change. Not only are languages like Java or Python adopting more and more concepts from functional programming. Newer languages like Haskell are going completely functional.

Functional programming is a significant paradigm shift in the software world over the past 10 years. Slowly but surely, it has moved from a niche feature of a few uncommonly used languages to a ...

You see, we don’t get functional programming by starting with an imperative language and cutting off its legs. A purely functional subset of Java or C or Python would be miserable little languages.

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 ...