Preface
You’re in for a treat. One of the most prominent and widely used languages in the world supports object-oriented, imperative style, and functional style programming. You can mix one of the most powerful tools—the object-oriented paradigm—with the imperative style, as we did in the past, or with the functional style, as you’ll learn in this book, to reduce the complexity of code. We can do quite effectively in Java what was previously possible only on the JVM using other languages—this means more power to Java programmers.
I’m thankful to have had the privilege over the past few decades to program with multiple languages: C, C++, Java, C#, F#, Ruby, Groovy, Scala, Clojure, Kotlin, Erlang, Haskell, Elm, JavaScript…. When asked which one’s ...
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