‘Higher-order functions’ is a fancy term for functions that take other functions as arguments or that return functions. Very powerful!

In the past two columns, we’ve looked at higher-order functions and talked a little bit about the power of functional programming. So far, the concepts we’ve covered do little to indicate how ...

JavaScript provides several built-in functions to format a date. However, these functions only convert the date to a format specific to each one. Let’s see how each formatting function works.