javaBin Online : Lambda? You Keep Using that Letter with Kevlin Henney
Details
You are hereby invited to our second javaBin Online session with our special guest speaker, Kevlin Henney!
All javaBin Online sessions are streamed over YouTube, so you can enjoy them from the comfort of your home office. The YouTube link will be posted here by 17:45 on the day of the event.
AGENDA
- 18:00: Welcome from javaBin
- 18:05: "Lambda? You Keep Using that Letter" with Kevlin Henney
- 19.00: Q&A
ABSTRACT
Lambdas. All the cool kid languages have them. But does ‘lambda’ mean what Java, JavaScript, etc. mean by ‘lambda’? Where did lambdas come from? What were they originally for? What is their relationship to data abstraction?
In this session we will look into the history, the syntax and the uses of lambdas and the way in which lambda constructs in Java and other languages do (or do not) match the original construct introduced in lambda calculus.
BIO
Kevlin is an independent consultant, speaker, writer and trainer. He has contributed to open- and closed-source codebases, been a columnist for a number of magazines and sites and has been on far too many committees (it has been said that "a committee is a cul-de-sac down which ideas are lured and then quietly strangled"). He is co-author of A Pattern Language for Distributed Computing and On Patterns and Pattern Languages, two volumes in the Pattern-Oriented Software Architecture series. He is also editor of 97 Things Every Programmer Should Know and co-editor of the forthcoming 97 Things Every Java Programmer Should Know. He lives in Bristol and online.