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 ...

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Read an excerpt from the 4th Edition of the book Python Essential Reference by David Beazley. Excerpt from Python Essential Reference, 4th Edition. Substantial programs are broken up into functions ...

Somewhere, somebody is going to hate me for saying this, but if I were to try to explain monads to a Java programmer unfamiliar with functional programming, I would say: "Monad is a design pattern ...

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