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Why are lambda expressions being added to Java?

Lambda expressions (and closures) are a popular feature of many modern programming languages. Amongst the different reasons for this, the most pressing one for the Java platform is that they make it easier to distribute processing of collections over multiple threads. Currently, lists and sets are typically processed by client code obtaining an iterator from […]