Functional programming is a declarative programming paradigm that treats computation as the evaluation of mathematical functions and avoids changing-state and mutable data. It focuses on describing what a computation should do instead of how to do it. Some key aspects of functional programming include pure functions, immutable data, and function composition where smaller functions are combined to create larger functions. Functional programming can help create testable, modular code with reduced bugs by avoiding side effects. It is commonly used for data processing and front-end development using languages like Elixir, Clojure, Haskell, and Elm.
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