Since I like to stay up-to-date with at least the most important programming languages, libraries and frameworks, I finally decided to take a good look at lambdas introduced in Java 8. Having been struck by both power and elegance of the Ruby’s Enumerable module, since then I’ve been beginning new programming language evaluation process by checking how it facilitates collection handling. Keeping in mind how verbose it was in Java, I opted for Scala and Clojure when it came to JVM-based languages.
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