Depending on the circles you travel in, you might have heard people talking about ditching their relational database management systems (RDBMS) and moving on to working with a different class of data stores… something they call “NoSQL”. The first time I’ve heard of it was a few years ago (I don’t remember exactly when or how) and, although it seemed like a relevant and an interesting concept, it wasn’t interesting enough for me to free some time to dig deeper. It all changed five months ago after I “bumped” into an unexpected and a very interesting opinion (more about that shortly).

Functional Programming (FP) was one of the issues we went over during the Scala demo I gave last Tuesday.

The resolution of that discussion was't to my satisfaction, not to mention following community entries that may picture FP as a concept that is open for personal interpretations. So, following are some clarifications about FP and its place in Scala.

Functional Programming: