{"id":3714,"date":"2011-08-19T12:10:36","date_gmt":"2011-08-19T17:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=3714"},"modified":"2011-08-19T12:10:39","modified_gmt":"2011-08-19T17:10:39","slug":"a-peek-past-lambda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2011\/08\/19\/a-peek-past-lambda\/","title":{"rendered":"A Peek Past Lambda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mail.openjdk.java.net\/pipermail\/lambda-dev\/2011-August\/003877.html\">Brian Goetz<\/a> (via <a href=\"http:\/\/pinboard.in\/u:ddribin\/b:0d8965c35f40\">Dave Dribin<\/a>):<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/mail.openjdk.java.net\/pipermail\/lambda-dev\/2011-August\/003877.html\"><p>It is my belief that the best direction for evolving Java is to \nencourage a more functional style of programming.  The role of Lambda is \nprimarily to support the development and consumption of more \nfunctional-like libraries; I've offered examples such as \nfilter-map-reduce to illustrate this direction.<\/p>\n<p>There is plenty of evidence in the ecosystem to support the hypothesis \nthat, if given the tools to do so easily, object-oriented programmers \nare ready to embrace functional techniques (such as immutability) and \nwork them into an object-oriented view of the world, and will write \nbetter, less error-prone code as a result.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Goetz (via Dave Dribin): It is my belief that the best direction for evolving Java is to encourage a more functional style of programming. The role of Lambda is primarily to support the development and consumption of more functional-like libraries; I've offered examples such as filter-map-reduce to illustrate this direction. There is plenty of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-programming-category"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3715,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3714\/revisions\/3715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}