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Re:Advantages of Functional Programming in Java 8 by hepta on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @06:10AM (#12434795)
I assumed the omission was for brevity, but there are annotations and 'final' in a lot of places.

Similarly, methods for mutation (compulsory, no less!) are red flag in FP.

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Re:Advantages of Functional Programming in Java 8 by john_reel on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @06:22AM (#12434850)
As someone who isn’t familiar with functional programming at all or too familiar with Java, where do I start?
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Re:Advantages of Functional Programming in Java 8 by ptero on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @07:11AM (#12435092)
Unless you have a strong reason to use Java, I'd stay far out of it in learning FP. Pick a language where FP model fits well into the language core (e.g., ocaml, Haskell; google for other options), not glommed on as an afterthought to a general purpose language.
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Re:Advantages of Functional Programming in Java 8 by hepta on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @06:53AM (#12435005)
Depends on your goals, Java isn't the best if your aim is to learn FP.
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Re:Advantages of Functional Programming in Java 8 by odabaxok on Tuesday September 06, 2016 @06:38AM (#12434931)
How about https://www.coursera.org/learn/progfun1 ?
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