Portland Java User Group - Your Brain on lambda(x) February 17, 2009

This month's topic: Your Brain on lambda(x)

Functional programming is (again) a hot topic among developers. Languages such as Scala and Clojure have functional concepts at the core of the langauge, and even more solidly object-oriented languages such as Groovy and C# 3.0 include functional concepts. This talk will cover whether langauge really matters, some functional techiques that enhance the power of a languge, how to implement some of these using existing Java syntax and semantics, and the future of functional additions to the Java langauge.

Speaker: Phil Varner

Phil is a software developer with Oracle, working on the Business Rules component of Fusion Middleware.

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