You see, 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.

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 ...

Futhark is meant to be more convenient to use than standard C/C++ frameworks for programming GPUs. It can automatically generate both C and Python code to be integrated with existing apps.

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 ...

How one developer's side project became the hottest programming language on the planet (cover story PDF) (TechRepublic) Python's ascent can be seen by looking at the percentage of questions ...

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

This is not true of imperative where data is generally changeable and function outputs unpredictable. From imperative programming came the languages C, Java and Python, while functional ...