Bachelor Degree Project Comparing functional to imperative Java

Java has recently become a multi paradigm language, with the functional paradigm now made available alongside the traditional, imperative, one. Programming in the functional paradigm may be considered complicated or hard to read, and there may be concerns that the code it produces may become hard to maintain because of complexity or readability issues. On the other hand, proponents of the functional paradigm promises smaller amounts of less complex code, as the framework takes on a larger responsibility. This Bachelor’s thesis closely examines the differences between effectively equal code written in functional and imperative Java, respectively, from the aspects of readability, complexity and verbosity, and shows that while code written in the functional paradigm is smaller and less complex, it is not harder to read. software architecture, java, functional java, complexity, readability, verbosity, functional programming