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 Quick Functional
Programming
Why learn functional programming? Isn’t that some compli-
cated ivory-­tower technique used only in obscure languages like
Haskell?

In fact, functional programming is actually very simple. It’s also

very powerful, as Haskell demonstrates by throwing away all the
conventional programming tools and using only functional pro-
gramming features. But it doesn’t have to be done that way.

Functional programming is a power tool that you can use in addi-

tion to all your usual tools, to whatever extent your current main-
stream language supports it. Most languages have at least basic
support.

In this book, we use Python and Java and, as a bonus, Scala. If you
prefer another language, there will be minor differences in syntax,
but the concepts are the same.

Give functional programming a try. You may be surprised

how much a single power tool can help you in your day-­to-­day
programming.
Quick Functional
Programming

David Matuszek
First edition published 2023
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 To all my students,
past, present, and future.
Contents

About the Author, xi

Preface, xiii

Chapter 1   ◾    What Is Functional Programming? 1

Chapter 2   ◾    Methods and Functions 5

2.1 Methods 6
2.1.1 Methods in Python 6
2.1.2 Methods in Java 7
2.1.3 Methods in Scala 9
2.2 Function Literals 10
2.2.1 Function Literals in Python 11
2.2.2 Function Literals in Java 12
2.2.3 Function Literals in Scala 13
2.3 Sorting Examples 14
2.3.1 Sorting in Python 14
2.3.2 Sorting in Java 16
2.3.3 Sorting in Scala 18

vii
viii   ◾   Contents

Chapter 3   ◾    Higher-Order Functions 21

3.1 Higher-Order Functions in Python 22
3.2 Higher-Order Functions in Java 25
3.3 Higher-Order Functions in Scala 27

Chapter 4   ◾    Functional Interfaces in Java 31

4.1 Single Abstract Methods 31
4.2 Anonymous Inner Classes 32
4.3 Defining Functional Interfaces 33
4.4 Method References 34
4.5 The Other Method Reference 37
4.6 Provided Functional Interfaces 38
4.6.1 IntPredicate 38
4.6.2 Function Composition 39
4.6.3 Predicates Again 41
4.6.4 Unary Operators 42
4.6.5 More Functions and Operators 43
4.6.6 Suppliers and Consumers 44

Chapter 5   ◾    If Expressions 47

5.1 If Expressions in Python 47
5.2 If Expressions in Java 48
5.3 If Expressions in Scala 49

Chapter 6   ◾    Comprehensions 51

6.1 List Comprehensions in Python 52
6.2 Comprehensions in Java 54
6.3 For Expressions in Scala 54
6.4 For Comprehensions in Scala 57
 Contents   ◾   ix

Chapter 7   ◾    Closures 59

7.1 Closures in Python 60
7.2 Closures in Java 61
7.3 Closures in Scala 63
7.4 Closure Example 64

Chapter 8   ◾    Currying 67

8.1 Currying in Python 69
8.2 Currying in Java 71
8.3 Currying in Scala 72

Chapter 9   ◾    Function Composition 75

9.1 Function Composition in Python 75
9.2 Function Composition in Java 77
9.3 Function Composition in Scala 78

Chapter 10   ◾    Optional Values 79

10.1 Optional in Python 80
10.2 Optional in Java 80
10.3 Option in Scala 81

Chapter 11   ◾    Lists 83

11.1 Recursion 84
11.2 Lists in Python 86
11.3 Lists in Java 87
11.4 Lists in Scala 87

Chapter 12   ◾    Streams 91

12.1 Generators in Python 92
12.2 Streams in Java 92
x   ◾   Contents

12.3 Numeric Streams in Java 95

12.4 Streams in Scala 95

Chapter 13   ◾    Important Functions 97

13.1 Important Functions in Python 98
13.2 Important Functions in Java 99
13.3 Important Functions in Scala 102
13.4 Additional Functions in Scala 105

Chapter 14   ◾    Pipelines 107

14.1 Pipelines in Python 109
14.2 Pipelines in Java 110
14.2.1 Intermediate Operations 110
14.2.2 Terminal Operations 112
14.2.3 Collectors 114
14.2.4 Example 115
14.3 Pipelines in Scala 116

Chapter 15   ◾    Summary and Final Examples 119

15.1 Examples in Python 120
15.2 Examples in Java 122
15.3 Examples in Scala 123

Afterword 125

Index, 127
About the Author

I ’m David Matuszek, known to most of my students as “Dr.

Dave.”

I wrote my first program on punched cards in 1963 and immedi-

ately got hooked.

I taught my first computer classes in 1970, as a graduate student in

Computer Science at The University of Texas in Austin. I eventu-
ally got my PhD from there, and I’ve been teaching ever since.
Admittedly, I spent over a dozen years in industry, but even then,
I taught as an adjunct for Villanova university.

I finally escaped from industry and joined the Villanova faculty

full time for a few years and then moved to the University of
Pennsylvania, where I directed a Master’s program (MCIT,
Masters in Computer and Information Technology) for students
coming into computer science from another discipline.

Throughout my career, my main interests have been in artificial

intelligence (AI) and programming languages. I’ve used a lot of
programming languages.

I retired in 2017, but I can’t stop teaching, so I’m writing a series

of “quick start” books on programming and programming

xi
xii   ◾   About the Author

languages. I’ve also written two science fiction novels, Ice Jockey
and All True Value, and I expect to write more. Check them out!

And hey, if you’re a former student of mine, drop me a note. I’d

love to hear from you!

david.matuszek@gmail.com
Preface

Y ou probably think that functional programming (FP) is

something dreamed up by ivory-­ tower academics using
obscure languages that few people understand.

You’re right.

You probably think that those weird languages such as Haskell,

Standard ML, and OCaml are never going to be very popular with
ordinary programmers.

Right again.

But did you notice…

• That ivory-­tower academics are some pretty smart people?

• That the programming language you use every day, what-
ever it is, is getting more FP features?

“Pure” functional programming, abandoning all the conventional

programming techniques, really is difficult. But you don’t have to
do that. Think of it this way: Conventional programming consists
of a collection of hand tools, and FP adds a power tool to the mix.
Just one—it doesn’t do everything, and you still need all the other
tools (unless you’re an ivory-­tower academic), but where you can
use it, it saves a lot of work.
xiii
xiv   ◾   Preface

Here’s a spoiler: FP will let you replace many of your loops with
shorter, simpler, easier to understand function calls. Yes, there’s
some unfamiliar syntax involved, but it’s just syntax, and you can
get used to it very quickly. The new concepts, the parts you might
think are the most difficult, turn out to be trivially simple.

You may be surprised how much a single power tool can help you
in your day-­to-­day programming.

FP is coming into prominence now because it is a far better way to

write concurrent programs, suitable for multi-­core computers.
However, this is only a book about functional programming, not
about concurrent programming; that would require a far larger
volume.

Each chapter after the first begins with an explanation of some

particular concept of functional programming. After that, there
are sections exemplifying that concept in each of three languages.

• Python, because it is a simple, widely known language.

Python has only a few of the most basic FP features.
• Java, because it is widely known and has many of the FP
features. The developers of these features have done an
awesome job in fitting these features into a language that
was never designed to hold them.
• Scala, which has been designed from the ground up to be
both object oriented and functional, and therefore provides
the cleanest and most complete set of FP features.

I have tried to make this book accessible to programmers who

do not know Python or Scala. The FP features of these languages
can be understood without an in-­depth knowledge of the language
in which they occur. Unfortunately, no such claim can be made
for Java.
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“They are written in a style transparently clear and

straightforward, and are decidedly romantic in substance and form.
Nothing in this book is equal to the stories in the preceding volume.”
W: L. Phelps

+ N Y Times p2 D 12 ’20 160w

JAMES, HENRY DUVALL. Controllers for

electric motors. il *$3 Van Nostrand 621.317

20–174

“A treatise on the modern industrial controller, together with

typical applications to the industries.” (Sub-title) The volume
consists of articles originally published in the Electric Journal, with
the addition of some new material. Partial list of contents:
Introduction; Historical; Design details: How to read controller
diagrams; Methods of accelerating motors; Starting characteristics of
motors with different methods of control; Methods of speed control
and dynamic braking; Direct current magnetic contactor controllers;
Alternating current controllers; Resistors; Protective devices. There
are 259 illustrations and an index.

Booklist 17:99 D ’20

JAMES, WILLIAM. Letters. 2v il *$10 Atlantic

monthly press

20–23198

“It is, naturally enough, less the scientist and thinker than the man
which is revealed in ‘The letters of William James,’ now edited, with
all the necessary explanatory material by his son Henry James. This
is as everybody should wish. For he was one of the greatest
Americans in personal qualities as well as in powers of mind and
these letters reveal him as he was. The energy and range of his mind
and the prodigious richness of his personality are truly revealed in
these two volumes. There are not a few valuable critical comments—
such as his estimate of Santayana’s ‘Life of reason’—which are not
otherwise accessible to the public, and there are no end of vivid
impressions brilliantly or tenderly phrased.”—Springf’d Republican

+ Booklist 17:152 Ja ’21

 “These letters—arranged in two comely volumes by the sure and
skilful hand of William James’s son—are full of wise and occasionally
profound little annotations upon contemporary American life and
manners. They will be treasured for the simple and delightful bits of
self-revelation that they afford.” H: H. Lappin

+ Bookm 52:557 F ’21 1150w

“Letters rarely disclose so much of a man in his entirety as do

these. They are eloquent in manner and equally eloquent in their
self-revelation. They are not merely ‘The letters of William James’;
they are the record of an epoch in the history of philosophy and the
chronicle of a notable family.”

+ Boston Transcript p10 D 8 ’20 2150w

“Although the correspondence with his colleagues all over the

world will be perhaps most eagerly read, the family letters are the
most beautiful. But there are some letters which should never have
been printed. In moments of heat and irritation James said things
about persons he met and even about his colleagues at Harvard,
which should not have been preserved in cold type.” W: L. Phelps

+ − N Y Times p2 D 12 ’20 1650w

“Whether we are seeking enjoyment or mental and spiritual uplift,

we may approach these letters with assurance.” Joseph Mosher

+ Pub W 98:1894 D 18 ’20 470w

 “As there has been no other American, and indeed, no other man,
like William James, so there can never be another collection of
letters like his, full of a unique and precious personality. All who care
for genius in its most human and most winning manifestations will
find the book a treasure-house.”

+ Springf’d Republican p7a D 12 ’20

2600w

JASTROW, MORRIS, jr. Book of Job; its origin,

growth and interpretation. *$4 Lippincott 223

20–27474

The author regards the Book of Job as the most celebrated of the
books of the Bible and the literary masterpiece of the Old Testament,
and the object of the present volume is to aid in the better
understanding and appreciation of the original, which has hitherto
been blocked by defective translations and insufficient consideration
of its composite authorship. The contents of Part 1, The origin,
growth and interpretation of the Book of Job, are: The folktale of Job
and the Book of Job; The three strata in the Book of Job; Changes
and additions within the original Book of Job; How a skeptical book
was transformed into a bulwark of orthodoxy; The Book of Job as
philosophy and literature. Part 2 is then devoted to a new translation
of the Book of Job, with plentiful annotations.

+ Booklist 17:138 Ja ’21

 “The work shows wide scholarship and in many passages the new
version is impressive and beautiful. Yet, after all is said, in spite of
the incorrectness of the King James version, in which, according to
Dr Jastrow, one line in ten is wrong, one cannot help liking its style
better than that of the new version.” N. H. D.

+ − Boston Transcript p3 D 8 ’20 1150w

“Professor Jastrow’s view will have to overcome not only

traditional prejudice but also strong emotional attachment to the
older view. But his volume is one which students of the Bible cannot
ignore.”

+ − Outlook 126:767 D 29 ’20 380w

“This is a vastly interesting and important book, and it isn’t a book

for preachers only, but for everybody who makes any pretence at all
to an interest in good literature.” R. S. Lynd

+ Pub W 98:1892 D 18 ’20 330w

JASTROW, MORRIS, jr. Eastern question and

its solution. *$1.50 (6c) Lippincott 327

20–7859

The author holds that the problems of the Near East will continue
to be a menace to the peace of the world until they are properly
settled; that they cannot be properly settled without the cooperation
of America, that America can only help by avoiding two
contingencies—political complications and the dispatching of a large
army across the sea—that mandatories involve both these
contingencies and that the only satisfactory solution lies in the
creation of international commissions. The last chapter is devoted
entirely to a discussion of this solution. Contents: The failure of
European diplomacy in the Near East; The present situation;
Mandates not a solution of the eastern question; Internationalism as
a solution of the eastern question; Insert map of Europe after the
great war.

Booklist 16:299 Je ’20

“The fact that Professor Jastrow’s scheme has not been adopted
does not in the least detract from its merits, in these days of flux and
change; and a book like his is well worth while, if it helps to educate
public opinion in this country on a question that involves us all,
whether we like it or not.” C. R. H.

+ Freeman 2:282 D 29 ’20 210w

“Optimism breeds optimism. Idealism is contagious. Such noble

faith as Dr Jastrow’s is a real world asset.”

+ N Y Times p4 Ag 15 ’20 600w

Outlook 125:507 Jl 14 ’20 50w

Reviewed by M. H. Anderson

Pub W 97:1293 Ap 17 ’20 250w