P.S. There's a pretty good chance that Java will see an uptick again when JDK 1.8 finally lands. The lack of a concise format for closures is crippling Java i

P.S. There's a pretty good chance that Java will see an uptick again when JDK 1.8 finally lands. The lack of a concise format for closures is crippling Java in the midst of the current surge of functional programming idioms.