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koide on June 10, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why isn't Java used for modern web application dev...

Because it's more expressive and leads to less and more maintainable code?

Who cares about paradigm purity? Especially given on a language that's not totally pure already.

joshAg on June 10, 2012 [–]

I don't care about paradigm purity, but given the amounts of java and lisp i've written, I didn't see why java would benefit from a lambda.

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