Scala and Spark for Big Data Analytics

Advantages of functional programming

There are some exciting and cool features in FP paradigms such as composition, pipelining, and higher order functions that help to avoid writing unfunctional code. Alternatively, at least later on, this helps translate a unfunctional program into a functional style towards an imperative one. Finally, now let's see how we can define the term functional programming from the computer science perspective. Functional programming is a common computer science concept in which computations and the building structure of the program are treated as if you are evaluating mathematical functions that support immutable data and avoid state change. In functional programming, each function has the same mapping or output ...