Moving from object-oriented to functional programming is a paradigm shift for developers, but these key principles explain why it's worth the effort.

Chris Gillum, principal engineering manager at Microsoft, presented at QCon San Francisco on Serverless Programming Models in Azure Functions. In his presentation, he discussed two stateful ...

Functional programming in Kotlin Allowing top-level functions is just the beginning of the functional programming story for Kotlin.

Carlos Romero, Multi-Objective and Goal-Programming Approaches as a Distance Function Model, The Journal of the Operational Research Society, Vol. 36, No. 3 (Mar., 1985), pp. 249-251 ...

Diet models based on goal programming (GP) are valuable tools in designing diets that comply with nutritional, palatability and cost constraints. Results derived from GP models are usually very ...

Tadeusz Antczak, SADDLE POINT CRITERIA AND THE EXACT MINIMAX PENALTY FUNCTION METHOD IN NONCONVEX PROGRAMMING, Taiwanese Journal of Mathematics, Vol. 17, No. 2 (April 2013), pp. 559-581 ...

They both have similar event-driven programming models, but now Azure Functions is starting to show its own colors as a core feature of Azure’s PaaS offering.