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kuschku on Jan 12, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Java 8: No more loops

And your example doesn’t even tell what it’s doing.

I’d have to look up what .expand, .where etc means, while Java just uses the standard FP names that every CompSci student knows.

kasey_junk on Jan 12, 2015 [–]

Where makes sense if you think of it from a SQL perspective which I think has more widespread use than the corresponding FP terms (ie lots of developers don't have a CompSci background, but few of them haven't used trivial SQL).

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