Modern Java – A Guide to Java 8

Post by cfontes » Mon, Nov 16, 2015, 12:53 PM UTC

masklinn wrote: post #36

kriro wrote: post #32

I've always had some sort of mistrust of Java (neo-Cobol ohnoes!) but I'm liking it more and more. Mostly I've come around to the fact that static typing isn't as bad as my young self thought (and can in fact be quite cool). The verbosity and "enterprisy" and committee oriented feel are still a bit off putting but I've made a commitment to try some Java on a couple of weekends. Did a bit of research and there's actua…

> Mostly I've come around to the fact that static typing isn't as bad as my young self thought That's not exactly a point for Java though, considering it doesn't really have a good static type system.

Post by oweiler » Mon, Nov 16, 2015, 12:54 PM UTC

mhaymo wrote: post #17

> maps don't support streams This is very misleading. There is not a #stream method on Map because Map supports three different streams: map.keySet().stream() map.values().stream() map.entrySet().stream()

Post by the8472 » Mon, Nov 16, 2015, 1:00 PM UTC

ifdefdebug wrote: post #44

interfaces with default implementations? Doesn't this look like... multiple inheritance?

Post by ifdefdebug » Mon, Nov 16, 2015, 1:03 PM UTC

the8472 wrote: post #45

ifdefdebug wrote: post #44

interfaces with default implementations? Doesn't this look like... multiple inheritance?

they only add behavior based on other already-present methods, they don't add fields.

Post by jerven » Mon, Nov 16, 2015, 1:06 PM UTC

dschiptsov wrote: post #33

chillydawg wrote: post #23

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It may not be modern computer science, but it is modern Java. This post is about modern Java and explains the new (in v8) features very well. What's your problem?

OK, what then is Java The point was that if one has a proper old-school computer science (to realize the crucial importance of first class procedures and the power of uniformity 20 years ago) all these modern features are coming for free, to which the code above is an illustration. But who cares. There is a whole industry which praised Java for almost two decades even without these "modern features". Any PL student o…