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

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 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 …

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

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? …

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 …

May 8, 2009 · Are there any known principles, best-practices and design patterns that one can follow while writing code in a functional programming language?

Why would you use functional language over a traditional language? What do functional languages do better? What are functional languages worse at? What's the ideal functional programming application?

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

Can someone guide me how do functional programming in C++? Is there some good online material that I can refer? Please note that I know about the library FC++. I want to know how to do that with C++