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Re:Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? by djacobs on Friday March 23, 2012 @10:50PM (#3748310)
True. Then again, what's the practical point of lambdas that aren't concisely expressed?
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Re:Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? by spacemanaki on Friday March 23, 2012 @11:39PM (#3748403)
There are plenty of practical uses: http://code.google.com/p/guava-libraries/wiki/FunctionalExpl...

Note that the Guava lib specifically points out how ugly this is.

I prefer Clojure.

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Re:Poll: What's Your Favorite Programming Language? by baddox on Sunday March 25, 2012 @05:27AM (#3752165)
What's the decision procedure for whether a certain expression is "concise?"
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