Play scala is a web architecture that lets a scala developer to write REST APIs quite easily. One sees a lot of tutorials and samples that implement the actions in somewhat this form

Lambdas in Java 8 is a nice feature and lets the developers write code in a concise and elegant way. It lets one think about the structure of a program functionally. I am writing series of posts that explore functional paradigms that one can apply while writing code in Java. This is first of those posts and I hope to end up writing a lot of them.

Scala is a interesting language as it lets developers write code in both functional and object-oriented paradigms. While I have been learning functional programming as well as scala, everyday, I come across features that lets me solve problems in a concise fashion which otherwise would have required a lot of boiler-plate code in a language like Java.

This is my first blog about programming and it is more of an effort to publish my thoughts and realisations which I can refer to, later on. It’s been more than a year since I started exploring functional programming. I have to admit that this has been an absolutely fantastic journey where I realised the effectiveness of compositions, higher order functions, the value immutability adds to the code maintenance, importance of writing pure code (no side-effects). While I have been learning scala and dabbled a bit in Haskell, I am trying to solve more and more algorithmic problems in a pure functional, side-effect free fashion.