Thanks to the JCP, the Java language has been extensively revised to address all kinds of different programming problems. Case in point (see sidebar) is how a simple Java function to sum an array of ...

Limits of Java’s support for functional programming. Even with functional programming improvements in Java 8, Java remains an imperative, object-oriented programming language.

But 20 years ago, the language was delivered to an entirely different set of needs: a good, general-purpose language for desktop computing. Java arrived at an important moment in software development.

The programming language in most demand, according to the data analysed by Coding Dojo, is Java. Widely used in Android mobile apps, desktop applications, smart TVs and elsewhere, the Java ...

Java EE8 will add a functional programming language capability, and marrying functional language programming with cloud parallelism should create new microservice models for enterprise applications.

Java may still be getting bad press when it comes to (mostly consumer) security, but it continues to be the world's most popular software development language. That's according to TIOBE Software's ...

C is an older programming language that is still widely used because of its practical application and close syntactic relationship to C++, C# and Java. This multi-purpose programming language is ...