October 2015
Intermediate to advanced
44 pages
52m
English
Content preview from Object-Oriented vs. Functional Programming
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Introduction
One of my favorite professional activities is speaking at software conferences. It’s great fun because you get to meet developers who are passionate about their craft, and it gives you as a speaker the opportunity to share knowledge with them.
A talk that I’ve enjoyed giving recently is called “Twins: FP and OOP.” I’ve given it at a number of conferences and user group sessions, and I’ve even had the pleasure of giving it as O’Reilly webcast. Developers enjoy the talk both because it has a large number of references to the film “Twins” and because it discusses one of the age-old relationships between functional and object-oriented programming.
There’s only so much you can say in a conference talk though, so I was really excited when Brian Foster from O’Reilly contacted me to ask if I wanted to expand upon the topic in a report. You can also think of this as a short followup to my earlier O’Reilly published book Java 8 Lambdas (O’Reilly).
You can watch the talk delivered at a conference online or delivered as an O’Reilly webcast.
What Object-Oriented and Functional Programmers Can Learn From Each Other
Before we get into the technical nitty-gritty of lambdas and design patterns, let’s take a look at the technical communities. This will explain why comparing the relationship between functional and object-oriented is so important and relevant.
If you’ve ever read Hacker News, a programming subreddit, or any other online forum, you might have noticed there’s often a ...
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I'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.