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Re: Lambdas/Callback Functions/Functional Programming. What is the point?

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Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> writes:

> Hi all,
>
> I had my first introduction to Java 8 last night via a talk on
> lambdas, streams, and functional programming.
>
> I understand that this is they way college students are learning to
> program in Java, so it is here to stay, so I plan on learning it too.
>
> I want to understand why Oracle implemented lambdas, streams, and functional programming.
>
> It looks very similar to the "callback funcitons" I have seen in
> javascript and the jQuery library.  I never liked that as it seemed to
> me to be a poor way of organizing things ( feeding blocks of
> code/functions into other functions ).
>
> Basically, what I would like to understand is what are the benefits of these things?  


http://web.stanford.edu/class/cs242/readings/backus.pdf
http://worrydream.com/refs/Hughes-WhyFunctionalProgrammingMatters.pdf


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Lambdas/Callback Functions/Functional Programming.  What is the point? Steve <tinker123@gmail.com> - 2015-01-22 09:35 -0800
  Re: Lambdas/Callback Functions/Functional Programming.  What is the point? "Pascal J. Bourguignon" <pjb@informatimago.com> - 2015-01-22 18:33 +0100
  Re: Lambdas/Callback Functions/Functional Programming.  What is the point? Lothar Kimmeringer <news200709@kimmeringer.de> - 2015-01-23 22:17 +0100

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