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Analysing Functional Paradigm Concepts

The JavaScript Case

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Hundreds of programming languages are available today and new ones are still emerging. Nevertheless, they are founded in several (old) paradigms. Knowing the essence of paradigms helps to orient oneself in this Babylon, which is challenging especially for the growing community of programmers with no computer science background. In this paper we focus on functional paradigm, which has a raising attention both in new languages (like Clojure and ClojureScript) and a growing support in traditional languages (like C++ and Java). We do not discuss why this happens here, but we focus on analysing fundamental concepts in the functional paradigm and functional programming languages. We describe them and divide them into two categories: key principles and additional principles. Next, we apply this conceptual framework to analyse the ES5 and ES6 versions of JavaScript. We conclude that ES6 is a good step towards functional principles support. Also, the presented conceptual framework may be used for similar analyses of other languages.

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    A variable can be also declared without the var keyword, which makes the variable global.

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  1. Faculty of Information Technology, Czech Technical University in Prague, Prague, Czech Republic

    Lukáš Janeček & Robert Pergl

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  1. DEI/FCT, Universidade de Coimbra, Coimbra, Baixo Mondego, Portugal

    Álvaro Rocha

  2. Nova IMS, Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

    Ana Maria Correia

  3. College of Engineering, The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, USA

    Hojjat Adeli

  4. DSI/EEUM, Universidade do Minho, Guimarães, Portugal

    Luís Paulo Reis

  5. DIMES, Università della Calabria, Arcavacata di Rende, Italy

    Sandra Costanzo

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Janeček, L., Pergl, R. (2017). Analysing Functional Paradigm Concepts. In: Rocha, Á., Correia, A., Adeli, H., Reis, L., Costanzo, S. (eds) Recent Advances in Information Systems and Technologies. WorldCIST 2017. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 569. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-56535-4_86

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