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Functional programming is about promoting functions to first-class citizens in a computer language. This means apart from primitive and object, reference-typed fields can also directly point to functions, and function arguments can be functions themselves. In addition, a language may also allow for special functional constructs like unnamed lambda calculus functions.
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Späth, P., Friesen, J. (2020). Functional Programming. In: Learn Java for Android Development. Apress, Berkeley, CA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4842-5943-6_10
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