In object-oriented programming, we might say the core concepts are: encapsulation inheritance, polymorphism What would that be in functional programming?

I've been mainly exposed to OO programming so far and am looking forward to learning a functional language. My questions are: When do you choose functional programming over object-oriented? …

Aug 23, 2008 · What advantages does functional programming provide? Functional programming allows coding with fewer potentials for bugs because each component is completely isolated. Also, using …

Apr 24, 2010 · It is presented as "the leading design pattern for functional programming", but the language used in the examples is Scala, which is both OOP and functional. You can read more on …

Feb 11, 2011 · Possible Duplicates: Functional programming and non-functional programming What is (functional) reactive programming? What is the difference between procedural programming and …

Aug 31, 2008 · I asked a question about currying and closures were mentioned. What is a closure? How does it relate to currying?

Jun 20, 2009 · Stateless programming is just as expressive and powerful as stateful programming, it just requires a little practice to train yourself to start thinking statelessly. Of course, "stateless …

In a functional language, you could pass in the mass of the earth to the function and then partially evaluate it. What you'd get back is another function that takes only two arguments and calculates the …

In computer science, functional programming is a programming paradigm that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids state and mutable data.

Feb 16, 2009 · What are the differences between these programming paradigms, and are they better suited to particular problems or do any use-cases favour one over the others? Architecture examples …