State of the Lambda

Re:State of the Lambda by batgaijin on Saturday September 22, 2012 @10:32AM (#4557920)

Hey, it's only been 17 years.

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Re:State of the Lambda by factorizer on Saturday September 22, 2012 @01:21PM (#4558392)

In which Java basically has taken over the world of enterprise programming. Contrary to fringe languages like Haskell and the like.

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Re:State of the Lambda by batgaijin on Saturday September 22, 2012 @02:04PM (#4558517)

Java forces you to write code in a pretty readable/static manner. Of course you can write 'bad' Java, but the point is that Java limits expressiveness so that YOU are replaceable/won't introduce memory issues. That's the whole point of using Java in the enterprise.

To be clear, I'm not saying anything bad about the JVM.

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Re:State of the Lambda by karterk on Saturday September 22, 2012 @01:48PM (#4558469)

Not everything that grows like weed is necessarily awesome. Just saying.

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Re:State of the Lambda by mikeash on Saturday September 22, 2012 @08:23PM (#4559465)

Kind of like how Windows basically took over the world of PC computing?

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Re:State of the Lambda by rforax on Saturday September 22, 2012 @10:42AM (#4557938)

yes, for a long time, anonymous classes was enough, verbose but enough.

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Re:State of the Lambda by eslaught on Saturday September 22, 2012 @12:49PM (#4558291)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turing_tarpit

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Re:State of the Lambda by rforax on Saturday September 22, 2012 @01:21PM (#4558393)

More a feature tar pit, yes.

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