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Prediction: within 5 years, the term "functional programming" will be almost meaningless.

• technomancy 15y ago
  "Horseless carriage". "Webcomic". "Cell phone".
  • dpkendal 15y ago
    I didn’t really mean in that sense, though that’s another possibility. What I meant was that, when Java somehow becomes ‘functional’ (like that transition can happen to an established language) it will be assumed that any program written in this version is ‘functional,’ regardless of whether it really is written in a functional style. Either way, adding lambdas does not make you into an acceptable functional language. Java is still not a language that Joel Spolsky won’t complain about the teaching of in schools.