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Alberto Riva

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Sep 12, 2012, 12:07:10 PM9/12/12
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From the current issue of the Java Developer Newsletter, received today:


Best-Kept Secrets Surrounding Java 8

Did you know that the schedule for upcoming features in JDK 8 are
available now on the OpenJDK site? How about that you can try out
the new functional programming concept "lambda expressions"
(AKA closures) now?


So sad...

Alberto

Yves S. Garret

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Sep 12, 2012, 1:03:26 PM9/12/12
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How cute, they're making baby-steps to catch up. Aww... look at the baby pictures. Isn't that the cutest baby you've ever seen? Yeah... wait, it's not the cutest baby you've ever seen? What you mean it's the ugliest baby you've ever seen?!?!?! OFF WITH YOUR HEAD!!!!

Kaz Kylheku

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Sep 12, 2012, 2:18:41 PM9/12/12
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On 2012-09-12, Yves S. Garret <yoursurr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> How cute, they're making baby-steps to catch up.

... with C++

Yves S. Garret

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Sep 12, 2012, 2:24:57 PM9/12/12
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To be fair, this message from Sun (Oracle's little poodle) is dripping with marketing nonsense, so the message itself is absurd from the start. However, the fact that Java is sort of a joke in this department is very serious.

alessio...@manydesigns.com

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Sep 13, 2012, 5:41:21 AM9/13/12
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It's also sad that "lambda expressions" in Java 8 are not really lambda expressions; they're not functions (there are no first-class functions in Java, the closest thing are method references which they're also adding in 8). Lambdas are mainly just syntax sugar for anonymous inner classes, a feature Java has had almost from the start.

D Herring

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Sep 20, 2012, 10:46:46 PM9/20/12
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On a related note, look what C++ added last year.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anonymous_function#C.2B.2B

- Daniel

proton

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Sep 22, 2012, 3:14:54 PM9/22/12
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The following quote comes to my mind:

"Those who do not know Lisp are doomed to reinvent it." - Erik Naggum

gavino_himself

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Oct 5, 2012, 10:36:13 PM10/5/12
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fuck java!

avodo...@gmail.com

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Oct 13, 2012, 4:34:29 PM10/13/12
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It would be funny to see s-expressions introduced somewhere in Java 12

gavino_himself

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Oct 19, 2012, 3:47:08 AM10/19/12
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On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 9:07:11 AM UTC-7, Alberto Riva wrote:
I wonder if someone made a few demo websites on common lisp and benchmarked vs tomcat for dynamic pages what would happen.

gavino_himself

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Oct 19, 2012, 3:59:21 AM10/19/12
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On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 9:07:11 AM UTC-7, Alberto Riva wrote:
http://harmful.cat-v.org/software/java
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