Functional programming languages are specially designed to handle symbopc computation and pst processing apppcations. Functional programming is based on mathematical functions. Some of the popular functional programming languages include: Lisp, Python, Erlang, Haskell, Clojure, etc.

This tutorial provides a brief overview of the most fundamental concepts of functional programming languages in general. In addition, it provides a comparative analysis of object-oriented programming and functional programming language in every example.

Audience

This tutorial will help all those readers who are keen to understand the basic concepts of functional programming. It is a very basic tutorial that has been designed keeping in mind the requirements of beginners.

Prerequisites

Before proceeding with this tutorial, you should have a basic understanding of Computer Programming terminologies in general and a good exposure to any programming language such as C, C++, or Java.