Learning Functional Programming in Go

The LINQ language

Most languages are multi-paradigm, meaning that depending on our coding style, we can use declarative, object-oriented and imperative features in the same program. Knowing when to use which style is more of an art than science. The more we learn, the better equipped we will be to make the right design choice, and the sooner in our development process we do it, the better. One final not, see the dotted line from imperative/declarative FoxPro to object-oriented Visual FoxPro? That's Microsoft killing its competition; FoxPro was once a well designed multi-paradigm language. FoxPro's procedural language was extended using Language Integrated Query (LINQ). LINQ added query expressions similar to SQL to the FoxPro language. For ...