The question was difference between function and functional not definition of functional. I guess the difference is when we refer to functional we mean a set of possible functions; Encapsulation inheritance, polymorphism what would that be in functional programming?
I've been mainly exposed to oo programming so far and am looking forward to learning a functional language. When do you choose functional programming over object-oriented?. - what is the difference between procedural programming and functional programming?
- can someone give me examples of functional programming vs. Aug 9, 2015can someone give an example that would point out the difference between a function and a functional in a very simple way? Aug 23, 2008in my second year of university we were "taught" haskell, i know almost nothing about it and even less about functional programming.
What is functional programming, why and/xor where. Functional programming and non-functional programming what is (functional) reactive programming? Why would you use functional language over a traditional language?
What do functional languages do better? What are functional languages worse at? What's the ideal functional programming application?
Dec 9, 2010functional and procedural programming are both, in that sense, structured paradigms. Functional programming is also declarative programming -- the structure given to your code. 25 most modern languages are in varying degree both imperative and functional but to better understand functional programming, it will be best to take an example of pure functional language.