Tag Archives: functional programming

Parallel stream processing in Java 8 – performance of sequential vs. parallel stream processing

Posted on 22. January 2016 by Erik Bamberg

Parallel processing is all around nowadays. Because of the increase of the number of cpu cores and the lower hardware cost which allows cheaper cluster-systems, parallel processing seems to be the next big thing. Java 8 cares for this fact … Continue reading →

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Frege – ein Haskell für die JVM

Posted on 19. November 2015 by Falk Sippach

Funktional zu programmieren, kommt gerade wieder groß in Mode. Die Ideen sind nicht neu, aber gerade für uns an Objektorientierung gewöhnte Java-Entwickler sehen sie erst mal ziemlich kompliziert aus. Dabei versprechen die Verfechter der funktionalen Programmierung, dass man besser strukturierte … Continue reading →

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Preview of lambdas in Java 8

Posted on 26. June 2012 by Falk Sippach

Are you already curious how the language changes in Java 8 will look like. The changes will be as big or even bigger as in Java 5: lambdas (JSR 335), functional interfaces and collections, method references and default methods in … Continue reading →

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Functional Thinking

Posted on 26. January 2012 by Falk Sippach

“Funktional Programmieren heißt, man schreibt, was gemacht werden soll und nicht wie etwas gemacht werden soll.” Neal Ford beschreibt in einer Artikelserie auf developerWorks, wie man auch als auf Objektorientierung-gepolter Java-Entwickler Konzepte der funktionalen Programmierung verwenden kann, um seinen Java-Code … Continue reading →

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Great series about Functional Scala

Posted on 22. November 2010 by Falk Sippach

Mario Gleichmann has started a great series of blog post about functional programming in general using Scala examples in particular. Check it out, if you are interested in the concepts of functional programming, especially if you are coming from imperative … Continue reading →

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