WHAT IS FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING IN JAVA?

• Every programming language is defined by certain syntactical and

structural norms – Programming Paradigms
• Paradigms available: Imperative, Object-oriented, Functional, Logic,
Procedural, etc…
• Modern programming languages are complex enough to be built upon one
or more paradigms.
• “Java imbibed functional programming technique within the syntactic
structure of the language “
• Java code can be developed using this paradigm without breaking the
existing architecture or worrying about the backward compatibility.
 FUNCTIONAL PROGRAMMING AND
LAMBDA CALCULUS

• Functional Programming Origin -

1. Mathematical Model – Theory of Functions
2. Lambda Calculus – Lambda
• Using lambda in Java is that it simplifies and reduces the amount of source
code needed to create certain constructs, such as anonymous classes
• Java introduced a new operator (the ->)—and the concept of type
inference.
• This structure allows one to write simpler and cleaner code.
• Used by JavaScript
 OVERVIEW OF OOP VS. FUNCTIONAL
PROGRAMMING

 In OOP, everything is represented as an object; therefore, every solution to

a problem must be defined as a scheme of classes and their properties
even if we need only to implement the behaviour.
 In functional programming we directly implement a function rather than
an class that contains a function
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 CONCLUSION

As a general purpose programming language, Java imbibed

the functional paradigm where interface and lambda
expression played a crucial role in collaborating new rules of
functional programming within the DNA of Object-Oriented
Java.
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