https://www.lambdafaq.org/why-are-lambda-expressions-being-added-to-java/ Your questions answered: all about Lambdas and friends Wed, 23 Sep 2020 15:06:58 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 https://www.lambdafaq.org/why-are-lambda-expressions-being-added-to-java/#comment-17789 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 18:53:22 +0000 http://www.lambdafaq.org/?p=13#comment-17789 The mention of modern programming languages is misleading: closures appeared in Scheme back in the ’70s. Stack based, non garbage collected languages such as C and (some of) its derivatives had to jump off the closure wagon, and unfortunately Java followed that.

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