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Thoughts about Programming Languages, Science and Philosophy.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Closures: Control Abstraction, Method References, Puzzler Solution

Closures: Control Abstraction, Method References, Puzzler Solution The Java Closures prototype now supports control abstraction and implem...

Tuesday, February 05, 2008

Closures Puzzler: Neapolitan Ice Cream

People experience the world in different ways, using different senses. Some people view the world primarily through sight. Do you ...

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About Me

Neal Gafter: Neal Gafter is a Computer Programming Language Designer and Implementer, Amateur Scientist and Philosopher. He works on the Rel compiler at Relational.AI. He previously worked for Microsoft on C#, for Google on Calendar, and for Sun Microsystems on Java. Neal was granted an OpenJDK Community Innovators' Challenge award for his design and implementation of lambda expressions for Java. He is coauthor of Java Puzzlers: Traps, Pitfalls, and Corner Cases (Addison Wesley, 2005). He was a member of the C++ Standards Committee and led the development of C and C++ compilers at Sun Microsystems, Microtec Research, and Texas Instruments. He holds a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Rochester.

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