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February 15 2009

foosel
16:53

InfoQ: Language Parity: Closures and the JVM

In this presentation from the JVM Languages Summit 2008, Neal Gafter discusses closures on the JVM. Topics covered include the JVM libraries, the challenges of running other languages on the JVM, language-specific wrapper/shim libraries, ways of making the JVM more language-friendly, whether lambda expressions are too hard, the history of closures, and forking the JVM to support closures.
Tags: development programming java closures jvm talk lambda bgga