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| bio | website | ewernli.com |
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| location | Berne, Switzerland | |
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| visits | member for | 1 year, 4 months |
| seen | Nov 13 '12 at 7:23 | |
| stats | profile views | 8 |
PhD student at Software Composition Group, University of Bern.
Working on software reengineering and programming languages.
Former software engineer/architect on JEE technologies for 5 years.
There's a bit more on my stackoverflow CV otherwise go to my website.
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Nov 4 |
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What triggered the popularity of lambda functions in modern mainstream programming languages? @Giorgio Java's function can not close over mutable variables, only eventually final variables. That's one of the difference between "real" closures (e.g. smalltalk) and "fake" syntactic suggar closure. Whether closing of mutable variable is good or bad is another issue. Java's designers argue this restriction is actually good, since closing over mutable state lead to sequential code. See cr.openjdk.java.net/~briangoetz/lambda/lambda-state-4.html |
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Jan 6 |
answered | How to verify/prove orthogonality of a programming language? |
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awarded | Teacher |
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awarded | Supporter |
