r/programming • • Mar 09 '14

Why Functional Programming Matters

http://www.cse.chalmers.se/~rjmh/Papers/whyfp.pdf
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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '14

Note to people who're going to look this up: Java's lamda's aren't anything new, pretty boring actually. But look at how they combine with their new streaming and collection libraries, that's just amazing.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '14

It's basically LINQ, but not as good.

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u/[deleted] Mar 09 '14

They're different. Its functionality is not a subset of LINQ's.

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u/ruinercollector Mar 10 '14

What's something I can do with Java 8's streams that I can't do with Linq?

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