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| Subject | Lambdas/Callback Functions/Functional Programming. What is the point? |
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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? Thanks Steve
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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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