The discussion on the lambda-dev mailing list has started to address the issue of what the Java language syntax for lambdas / function literals ought to look like. Let’s look at a slightly non-trivial ...

Community driven content discussing all aspects of software development from DevOps to design patterns. The goal of a lambda expression in Java is to implement a single method. All Java methods have ...

Before LAMBDA was introduced to Excel, you'd need to know how to use VBA or macros to create your own function. However, today, Excel's LAMBDA tool lets you do this using familiar Excel language and ...

It creates a reusable function that takes three inputs: actual sales, sales quota, and a weighting factor. It returns a ...

In the good old days, coders asking how to do X in C were told "this is how you do it." Now we say "wouldn't it be nice if we could," with a realistic chance of having it happen. As Java coders, we ...

That's a disadvantage because VB developers may never become familiar with the syntax that allows you to dynamically wire up an event at runtime. C# developers are familiar with that syntax from the ...

A lot of programming languages these days feature lambda functions, or what I would be just as happy to call anonymous functions. Some people make a big deal out of these but the core idea is very ...