Java Closures and Lambda

APPENDIX A

A Tour of Paradigms

Many books, articles, and conversations will wax poetic about programming language paradigms, comparing and contrasting “imperative,” “object-oriented,” and “functional” without explaining what they are. Worse, when people go to explain these particular styles, the result is often rather vague. This appendix will provide an overview of the three dominant paradigms in post-functional programming by implementing the same functionality three different ways: we will use a database set-up process as a common problem, and show how you would solve that problem in each of the different paradigms. All of this will be done ...