That’s about to change. Not only are languages like Java or Python adopting more and more concepts from functional programming. Newer languages like Haskell are going completely functional.

Many Python fans have longed for the language to adopt functional programming features. Now they can get those features without having to switch to a new Python implementation. Coconut ...

provides a bridge between Python and functional programming, in yet another nod to a software development paradigm that has been attracting plenty of attention lately. The Haskell-influenced ...

The object-oriented paradigm popularized by languages including Java and C++ has slowly given way to a functional programming approach that is advocated by popular Python libraries and JavaScript ...

we don’t get functional programming by starting with an imperative language and cutting off its legs. A purely functional subset of Java or C or Python would be miserable little languages.

Functional programming is a significant paradigm shift ... was usually between the C++ and Java families versus the Python and Ruby families. The former introduced some sanity checks at compile ...

For those unfamiliar, Python is a general-purpose programming language that supports multiple programming paradigms, such as structured, object-oriented, and functional programming. Python has ...

Python supports multiple programming paradigms, including object-oriented, imperative and functional programming styles.