Elliott Rusty Harold is blogging that functional programming in Java is dangerous. He’s wrong, and he’s way late to the party on this one–it’s coming to Java whether he likes it or not. Go read his ...

Four key concepts are essential for understanding Clojure’s functional programming paradigm. Here’s how to apply what you ...

Program corpus analysis is important in the optimization of runtime systems. Conventional linguistic analysis is static in nature and cannot reflect dynamic behaviors revealed by versatile ...

I know we've had many fine threads on exceptions in Java. Hopefully this particular question hasn't been discussed to death. I solved Problem 11 on Project Euler today. It requires you to do a bunch ...

I know MWNH will say no, since he's content to have everyone program in Java, but I also know many from personal experience who might say yes.<P>3) (I guess this should be before #1) Will Sun respond ...

Oracle recently lost its attempt to use patent and copyright law to force Google to pay $US9 billion for using parts of its Java computer language. Nine billion ...

The dispute between Oracle and Google began in 2005, when Google commenced efforts, but ultimately failed, to license the Java APIs for use in its Android mobile operating system. Google decided to ...