There are many de facto definitions, all of which fail to identify the important point to functional programming.

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"[T]he JVM is not short of languages which are better than Java."

On type systems. Some history, some practice.

If/when I write a debugger.

"Introduces some of the essential tenets of functional programming and why they are important [...] draws on the existing Java knowledge of the audience to relate foreign concepts [...] then goes on to introduce the Scala programming language."

For the next time I have to work with sloppy Python.

If it weren't so painfully true, lulz.

Hell, everyone else has bookmarked this.

handy!