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Project Lambda in Java SE 8

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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

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  • 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]

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