15 Advanced functional programming
This chapter covers
- Functional programming concepts
- Limits of functional programming in Java
- Kotlin advanced functional programming
- Clojure advanced functional programming
We have already met functional programming concepts earlier in the book, but in this chapter we want to draw together the threads and step it up. There is a lot of talk about functional programming in the industry, but it remains a rather ill-defined concept. The sole point that is agreed upon is that in a functional programming (FP) language, code is representable as a first-class data item, that is, that it should be possible to represent a piece of deferred computation as a value that can be assigned to a variable.
This definition is, ...
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