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Project Lambda in Java SE 8
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Summary
Daniel Smith details some of the new features prepared for Java 8 by Project Lambda: lambda expressions, default methods, and parallel collections.
Bio
Daniel Smith is a Java language designer and compiler developer at Oracle. He currently leads the specification efforts for JSR 335: Lambda Expressions for the Java Programming Language. He received a PhD in Computer Science from Rice University, doing research on type inference in object-oriented languages. He previously worked at LogicBlox.
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Mar 28, 2013
Community comments
What about C#?
by Berke Sokhan,
What about C#?
by Berke Sokhan,
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It is interesting, how presenter deliberately not mention C#'s or .NET's lambda expressions while talking about other languages or history of the idea. Even he mentioned Objective-C, oh boy... [until 19th min, then he admits they took syntax from C#, nice]