In a world where technology plays a major, increasing role day after day, efforts devoted to develop better software are never too much. This book presents a study on software applications development based on a real case, were the integral process of software development is addressed from the functional paradigm point of view. In contrast with the traditional imperative paradigm, the functional paradigm represents a different way of developing applications, and also a distinct manner of thinking about software itself. This work goes through the characteristics and properties that functional...