A Taste of Functional Programming in Java 7, Java 8 and C# 4
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A Taste of Functional Programming in Java 7, Java 8 and C# 4 was first seen on Lobsters · Hottest on Oct 31, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 1 check on 1 different day. Its best position was #16 of 25, reached on Oct 31, 19:21 UTC. It dropped off the list after Oct 31, 19:21 UTC.
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Interesting article. I work mostly in C#, and have barely touched Java, so I didn't really realize that Java was this far behind. Too bad C# is so Microsoft-specific and doesn't get much love in the internet world; I think it's the best language in its category.
As much as I love functional programming I do feel like the trend of trying to add functional idioms into imperative languages is more syntactic sugar for these languages and misses the point of functional programming a little bit. I also think that the imperative code then becomes hard to read/maintain and difficult…
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