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.

Functional programming with Java. Many developers don’t realize it, but it was possible to write functional programs in Java before Java 8. In order to have a well-rounded view of functional ...

The move into functional programming in Java can be intimidating. There were a lot of new interfaces introduced in Java 8 to make working with Streams and lambda expressions possible. But, most of ...

"Functional Programming in Java" is a new book written to help readers get on top of the new, essential Java 8 language features and the functional style that will change and improve your code. It's a ...

Functional programming languages will have a place in general application development when we can read ... people are hard at work adding support for functional programming constructs to Java and C#.

A purely functional subset of Java or C or Python would be miserable little languages. If that’s how you expect an actual functional language to work, well, expect to be miserable too.

The advent of Java 8 in particular added important features taken from functional programming idioms that make code shorter, more reliable, and more expressive.

On May 23, 1995, a seemingly modest programming language called Java was released by Sun Microsystems. At the time, it introduced the catchy promise of "write once, run anywhere" - a proposition ...

C remains the language of choice for most embedded developers with C++ close behind. Java is in the mix along with other programming languages but functional programming languages show up in very ...